Val'ira

I had studied all the chemistry
Aand I wrote the book on law
Self-assured in my security
I would rise above it all
When it all came crashing down on me
Who was left to hold the debt I would default?
Pay the piper, dermis and all

Half a dozen nurses wait on me
In a room with four gray walls
All my friends and family weep for me
As they put their lives on hold
I'm a burden to society and I've burned a hole a million and a half
Where I've landed no one comes back

Now Val'ira, she who rescued me
Is an heiress to the throne
She was born a child of destiny
And she'll teach me what she knows
That the only path from wickedness is to vest myself in things outside of me
And commit continuously

Now her father serves as emperor
And protector of the land
And he doubles as the magistrate
He conducts the marching band
He's a large and bulbous scaly thing but his smile conveys a fondness in his heart
For a sun-folk meek and unwashed

Now the tyranny of oxygen
Is a fight to overcome
So Val'ira sings me lullabies
As I open up my lungs
Let the healing waters conquer me as they wash away the sins I have committed
In my past restlessness

I am a martyr of her cold and gentle ways
And I have decided to devote my waking days
To a prophecy of paradise: we have heard the elders say
"Sit on the throne, our goddess of water
Drown in the ocean sins of our fathers
Offer her hand to a man who has fallen
Sea and the sun that day will be one"

While I still believe in entropy
And I've borrowed most I know
Curiosity being what it is
I have stumbled down this hole
I am Alice through the looking glass, and I'll claw the dirt to see how far it goes
'Til I hear my casket lid close