Variations On A Scream

Staring into a cracked mirror

Only receiving fragments

Bits of one's self

The world itself is a plight

Shattered dreams and mirrored shards

Those knives

Wedged between the sharpening stones

Is there no earth under my feet again

They dance aloof as if souls stirring in a breeze

Outward expressions of the inner voice

Will father a child

You can be proud with the talents

You've been endowed

Slipping into a masquerade

And meeting all who've long stayed

Parlor tricks snuff candle wicks

Gone is the light that once burned bright

Receiving small shimmers

Glimpses of the source of light

Reclaiming our lost sight we will take

Effacing the blinders

All aboard the bandwagon

All be whored

While riding the bandwagon

And stay away

From trite cliché

Is there no earth under my feet again

Dwell not in the foot holes of our pioneers

Individualize intellectualize

Relate instate leave it behind

Leave it all behind