Gaslighter - The Mire

With mastered apathy

A barbed solipsist verse

The world beyond your mind is a mirage

A charnel house

Of absent empathy

An imitated warmth

I know your tender way is a facade

Blue devil

A frigid dancer in the fog

No rhyme in cancer

You keep me strung out on your love

Gaslighter

Vermin and the crown

You built this

Just to tear it down

In desert wards

You grew among the dunes

And as you pulled my strings

You became everything I ever knew