Effigies of Yesterday

With age and neglect a change is thrust
A face of rust flakes to dust

Wake me up to the age simplicity
Before we debunked every strain of infinity

Wisdom heaves regret, self-doubt
The silent screams I cant yell out

Time ebbs down stream flows to a spill
Cascades upon plains when it's over the hill

A sobering chill beholding the drown
And the parts me I banished to a ghost town

Slow down to watch myself haunt these walkways
The streets, fields, buildings and hallways

All day I wonder where my time escaped to
Slipped through the cracks id hacked for a break through

Make do a mantra of tantrums
Couldn't see the prison bars for the sanctum

The earliest
Stencils I shaded are theirs to dandle
Nestled in the frames of my parents mantle

Adolescence shaped by pressure and vandal
Measured by the grades of every lesson valued

When I came of age to stress so tangible
Stepped on stage where they hecklers wrangle

Blessed was the day I'd neglect the manual
Tear the pages, Undressed the tangle
Did
Merited the fade and the debts we gamble
Accepted the way that my errant candle... drips

All my effigies of yesterday
Dance with vigour through that cleansing flame
To the songs of days I had wished away

So I'm caught between worlds sleeved in a chrysalis
Weaved in bereavement, grieving my innocence

Reminiscent quivers get the best of me
Just another symptom of my hypersensitivity

The highs of simplicity revel in that ore
Flashbacks execute a nausea

Pause for a second gawp horizons
Where arteries have forked and divided

Caution and silence, my two best friends
Remembering an age where bruise met sin

Loose met win but they both were impostors
And either one could morph to monster

Lost so many days to the spoils of illusion
I've since twisted to a coil of convolution

Confused when I found that my heroes draw blood
What maudlin lens to explore love

The earliest
Stencils I shaded are theirs to dandle
Nestled in the frames of my parents mantle

Adolescence shaped by pressure and vandal
Measured by the grades of every lesson valued

When I came of age to stress so tangible
Stepped on stage where they hecklers wrangle

Blessed was the day I'd neglect the manual
Tear the pages, Undressed the tangle

Merited the fade and the debts we gamble
Accepted the way that my errant candle... drip

All my effigies of yesterday
Dance with vigour through that cleansing flame
To the songs of days I had wished away