Lies

Deep inside of one and all
sits the lies that can rot away
the people we wish some sunny day
we could be before we fall

like mold with spores made of deadly mist
slowly poisons the flesh of lungs
with clammy skin and swollen tongues
and bloody spit from coughing fits

like craving bad the next long drag
or the pain the razor gives
telling yet another fib
a deadly game with death of tag

like another week of one night stands
another morning walk of shame
a beast so far you've failed to tame
trying to drown out life's demands

like a thread that must be pulled
that unravels your claim to reality
it will leave your will an absentee
and your hardened heart exposed

beating slower and growing cold
waiting for the needle prick
forming ice and freezing thick
catatonic psychoses takes hold