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Voices and New Eyes

from Vain / Phobias by Sewir

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Do you wish to disappear?
Be gone from your body
And float alone in conscious bliss?
The world is not elsewhere.
Look around:
Everywhere is the blooming buzzing confusion.
But your eyes have always been strong,
Able to focus, unmoved by pleasure.
But once things get taken away
Your concentration breaks and more eyes surround you.
This is your offering which you could have
Volunteered in a different life.

A different life: another focus fantasy.
If you look long enough, ghosts appear,
And voices tell you of another place,
And force your lips to repeat over and over:
I want to kill myself
I’m going to kill myself
I’m going to kill myself
I’m going to kill myself
Dreams come which break you apart
And remind you of the voices saying
I’m going to kill myself.
One day it will stop being a playful refrain
And what will you do then?
What will you do when tempted, that gun
Whispering softly under your bed,
Informing your dreams,
Adding to the cacophonous gallery of voices?

They cause you to blanche,
That lip smacking, succulent, innocent body.
Petrified (or wanting to be), chained before them.
More eyes are summoned by your involuntary reaction.
Your life is an involuntary reaction:
Started, kept, and ended that way.
Who was the cause?
Was it your different life?
How alone were you given such choices?
How did you choose to be here and choose?

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from Vain / Phobias, released March 20, 2020

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