Colony

Step right in, into my quarantine

Where thoughts I cannot trace

Have formed a colony

Repaint, remodel, recast, and revise

Rework every meaning in my mind

Someone said

If only, if only what we hope

Could become what we know

Just as surely as, as we grow old

Every promise is a prophecy

But nothing, nothing's guaranteed

And my silence

My silence has not

Has not protected me

Step right in, into my quarantine

Where thoughts I cannot trace

Have formed a colony

Repaint, remodel, recast, and revise

Rework every meaning in my mind

Someone said

If only, if only what we borrow

Could become what we own

Just because, just because we say so

The contagion is airborne

We know what's inside

And it burns

The future's a dreamscape

We know what we've lost

And it burns

Every promise

Every promise is a prophecy

Every promise

Every promise is a prophecy

But nothing

Nothing's guaranteed

My silence

My silence has not

Has not protected me

My silence has not protected me

No sanctuary