Sublingual - Barrier

Fragile shell

It’s my responsibility

To find, to rectify

The smudge on the lens

Distortion projected out of quiet lies

Last vestige of a moment yet unloved

Shy affliction

Ancient pain

Once cornerstone of protection

Now you scurry from the light

Would you show us

What you’ve become?

Would you show yourself

Shadow Walker?

Shatter all this

This ornately wrapped delusion

This fool’s gold

Bound in fear

Obsolete

There’s a greater wolf to feed

Piercing shame, clear as day

I spak your name

I choose to live

To fac myself again

And again

Fall away

All

The symptoms justified

Attend the root

Look me in the Eye

Through the clever fraud of time

Grasp this callused root

And pull

Throes of letting go

Only to realize that I decide

Look me in the Eye

What am I defending?

Grasp this callused root

And pull

I choose to live

To face myself again

And again

Take it off

All

The masks and the facades

Begin anew

Shatter all

Delusion

This fool’s gold

Bound in fear

Obsolete

Ancient pain

Piercing shame

I speak your name