The frailty of all my beliefs At challenge i could crumble so quickly The wretched ways i weigh my words Clumsy in spite of hours rehearsed How memories assault and dwell While pacing through this mental cell My back and forth through pride and shame As grand convictions are betrayed My carnal lust and poison vice No dream nor drug will quite suffice The ruminations i have built To labyrinths of fear and guilt These lacerations i've designed Composed of dissonance and rhyme And are repulsed by what they see With tactful hate's passivity I lurk in my own hell Their sullen absentee Basking in such dull remote Self-indulgent frivolities Working ever so hard To suspend their disbelief A character writing his own script And scanning it obsessively A masquerade forced and depraved It'll honestly be a relief To take my last bow and leave this stage But what if they know? It shows you know In every word you say Fooling no one but yourself When you try to hide away