Emotional assimilation Is trauma, trauma, trauma Is trauma, trauma, trauma Is trauma's worn, Scar-tissued skin Seared by state-sanctioned aspirations Underneath my will to Live clings tight my will to die The silent secret of my strength Is all the shame I've centralized And all the people i see Whose suffering's steeped in Dreams of nothing when Their eyes close to sleep Don't see the void that they Meet as so much more comforting I dream of nothing when I close my eyes to sleep Each day awake just lies in wait to shape, In vain, clean breaks away from daily Debasement, engage the escapist Unendingly inaccessible until ingratiated I dream of nothing but ending my self-defeat Apparently, my revealings of my injuries are just my Manipulative tendency! And these techniques spoken to me About responsibility and integrity are suffocating Placating sayings placed to efface me But I was taken, I was taken, I was, I was I was taken through the threshold by the tension I espoused Fitted for full integration into a burning house I was taken through the threshold by the tension I espoused Fitted for full integration into a burning house