Rise, Renaissance Man

And I hear the words

Leaving your lips

But the way they quivered wasn't quite the same

They weren't your words

Just clever lines

From some book

Or some movie

I keep telling myself that it wasn't real

But I feel it, every fucking day

And the world swirls towards death unimpeded

Death unimpeded its promise too soon

Maybe I should take some time

Set things right

Maybe I should live through these days of strife

Because we are not our failures

Friends

Family or that loneliness

I know it's pervasive

I know it's persuasive

But don't let it take a hold of you

Oh here they come again

These thoughts unending

And these sheets are a web

A tangle, a trap

I won't accept this unending daze

Unauthentic, unrealistic, lethargic

Don't let them take a hold of me