Perception.
A sense of other,
The binding of self;
Making the box
Of self-entrapment;
Casting out the void
And becoming the cat
That knows neither death nor life.
Deception.
Weaving the flesh
To bring forth the word;
Peopling
The infinite nutshell.
The false dichotomy,
The lie of other,
Haunts me in dead of night;
Promises of truth.
Prognosis.
What a slender strand,
Dangling helpless,
Cut by stray sweep
Of Atropos' hand.
Perchance cyanidic dream?
Or mayhaps another's finger
guilty wrapping trigger.
Tis all the same,
The horrid forest awaits
Seven levels down.
Apotheosis.
Ghosts my vision haunt,
Deceit of my design.
A pageant,
structured faithlessly,
Phantasms of the mind.
Alone in troth,
Will psyche endure
As i cast off the self-made shroud
And master the void?