litote_convoluted: art: open eyes and close doors
Open Eyes and Close Doors
Open eyes and close doors -
you can't go back,
then,
you can't go back,
to what it was before.
Lies can't be swallowed,
no self-prescribed
placebo,
I can't wait.
I can't wait around
for this to work, anymore.
Open eyes and close doors -
ten dollar words,
the importance of records,
these lives have been
forged, and
you can't go back,
then,
to what it was before.
To learn -
the truth is a curse.
To learn -
and more knowledge is poured.
Answers are only more
questions.
You can't go back,
then,
Open eyes and close doors.
Puzzles and games and
cheaters and lovers
and get out of jail free:
a set of used tools.
Slip me a condom
and deck of marked cards,
but you can't cheat the system
without knowing the rules.
Give me the bar napkins,
notebooks and journals,
and all late-night poems,
inspiration in ink.
We'll ring out the glory
in drops of thick meaning
to dig through the stains
for the rules that we seek.
Or take off your clothes!
Drop your hair dye and makeup.
We'll see what you're made of -
replace flesh with order.
Patterns, patterns more
but open eyes and close doors -
we have lists of exceptions,
all our stories have pores.
you can't go back,
then.
You can't go back,
to what it was before.
Open eyes and
close doors.