Hindsight

I watched you emerge from the spectral lagoon

And gouge out your heart with a smirk

The digitless hand would scarcely come full circle

'Fore the red eye on horizon would lurk

The blistered dementia of your logic would sear

Through the foundations of many a mind

Your coveted presence would endear them all

Seen only as a virus in hindsight

I followed the trail of broken promises

That you'd left plain in your wake

I watched you trip and fall, as you started to crumble

Like a glistering top-heavy cake

And they picked you apart, in a spectacle

That would leave us all aghast

As their gnarled truths and triggered sentences

Were as conniving as they would be fast

And the lies were laid down bare

For the subjugators all to see

The only thing left for you to lose

Is me

The eyes that had charmed the most skeptic of minds

Were hollow and void of disdain

They turned now to me, fighting hard for the tears

To mingle with the torrential rain

And your words rang true, there's a first time for all

And for all there was a first time for you

But the time wasn't yours, and I've none in reserve

To clean the rusty red from the black and the blue

And the lies were laid down bare

For the subjugators all to see

The only thing left for you to lose is me

The only thing left for you to lose is me

And the lies were laid down bare

For the common people all to see

The only thing left for you to lose

Is me