Harlequin

Try, seeker, try

To find this path of mine

I weave a simple line

Take care to watch my flight

Place your fingers here to guide me

Guide me under

One must lead the other

See, the way I bring

Can change easily

The end knows those who come

But each can run away with us

Place your fingers here to guide me

Guide me under

One must lead the other

Walk here softly through this door or never

Follow me into my sanctum

There are no words, so watch as I

Strip away layers, I strive to find paces

I reel from each image, a product of loss

Bearing away my wholeness, fooled by my own hands

Offer a useless notion to satisfy demands

Paint me again so deeply

Illusions from within

Make me a tragic canvas

For the dye inside my skin

Sorry you never asked me

Sorry you never tried

Grief you hold so shallow will pass away in time

Shards of my identity

Scattered here upon the ground

Fragments of a tragedy

Dig in coarse to bring me down

Kneeling in my agony

Reaching in to pick them out

Holding on so desperately

'Til they cut inside and drown

In this prison of my misery

In the vessel of my doubt

In the court of endless suffering

In the hall where I am bound

To these servants of a history

As they circle all around

They stand in their delight

I lay my hands upon these wounds and cry in empty ridicule

Broken words and Hollow truths

I've crept inside a sorrowful embrace

Cruel embrace

Await my claim

So stay away

Stay away

Away (repeated)