Obsidian Currents

You like to think that you can

Live beyond good and evil

Amputated from humanity

On some lifelong intellectual retreat

Everything is conceptual and

All is rhetorical

You can feel so powerful

When you're forced to face the physical world

You scurry like an insect

There is a virus in your tenets

Don't be naive, you know it's true

And if you don't protect yourself

Obsidian currents

Will devour you

You have committed yourself

Wholly to the dominion of semantics and ideas

All things cerebral and abstract

No patience for impractical emotions

Burning everyone who

Ever try to get close to you

But you're so lizard-like you don't

Feel any passion for anyone but yourself

There is a virus in your tenets

Don't be naive, you know it's true

And if you don't protect yourself

Obsidian currents

Will devour you