Behind the gleaming mirror of every appearance

A dull suffering is concealed in the dark

This hidden affliction is not able to crack

The glass fences that we put between us

Few people are able to see

The distorting face of our misery

The smooth surface only returns the projection

Of others' expectations in one direction

Everywhere these reflected shadows are posted

Pictures revealing only our own anxiety

Our facades displaying in an infinite gallery

The enticing portraits of these defined masks

In this sad simulacrum no dream can pierce

The thickness of our one-way glass

The slightest seed of hope is consumed without delay

By the meanders of life before getting digested

Time reigns supreme on these formatted subjects

Who advance in rhythm with the ticking seconds

An interval much too short to allow

To expose a part of our unease to the world

We have tried so hard to make deafening

A silence which may seem obvious to some

But those who are in the same situation hear nothing

Obsessed with these obscure reflections

Still, one day our images will shatter

Suddenly revealing miserable figures

Mouth paralyzed in a mute cry for help

And glassy eyes, forever frozen

Rhymes for the time

When we began to hide

Losing our mind

Starting to decline

Behind the hourglass

Flattened by the mass

Of what days and nights

Keep throwing at us

The sluice of my brain can no longer impede

The foam and the waves of this hard reality

The swell is spreading on the shore of my illusions

So eroded and worn away by tears in fusion

A thundering noise in the prison of my skull

I begin to burn the muse that made me dull

Her once clear face is fading in the embers

But the tumult in my head by no means disappears

Animals

Running out of life

Building high

To keep our dreams in sight

Clones in line

We've lost our divine

Opaque and blind

Behold our mankind

Words can't do a thing in this ocean of nonsense

My brain shuts down and I'm left without reason

How can I not sink, how can I survive

How can I see the truth among these lies

No light can shine through a mirror, a glass armor

We have turned on the screen forever

No one will ever see our fissures anymore

Superficial reflections yet darkness between strangers

Frosty breeze, a whiff of misery

Gust of icy winds, putrid melancholy

Salty tear, a whisper in your ear

Embittered fury, a resounding scream

No light can shine through a mirror, a glass armor

We have turned on the screen forever

No one will ever see our fissures anymore

Superficial reflections yet darkness between strangers

While you feel you might need the dark

While you think the light is burning out

Rise, rise against your will to hide

Though our age sees shadows growing fast

And the upcoming night might indeed last

The rage in your eyes can restore your sight

Rise, rise against your will to hide

Rise, rise against your will to hide

I fall every day in the shadows around me

A one way journey with no one to rescue me

I sink, I write, I live, I die

I'm hiding my madness in the ink of my nights

I hide

I hide