masterpiece • with theEgoEffect

I paid a price,
unsolicited and exorbitant,
to witness the true beauty of life;

visions I hoped would have remained dormant,
and a toll paid by all, paid first and foremost
by fissioned spirits,
a hard lesson learned-

in ugliness exists beauty,
and behind the success is the meek
getting weaker, week by week, truths
heard in their silence; and then...

the sirens — deaf on one ear
for always turning a cheek,
with radiance hidden in the bleak;
undone verbs now resonate,
lingering in lost frequencies;

meaning within the seams,
sounds become irrelevant-
I hear music in the screams,
I feel without the touch

and I see with closed lids,
yet this seduction - always bitter
with a daunting id

in a vibrant world made to permeate the mind
one is clouded, shiftless, and blind
oblivious to the obvious, trapped in oblivion;

while fun house mirrors contort the body,
causing broken intonation in abstract idiom,
soft-spoken with spurts of insanity,

bearing every ounce of humanity;
you were beautiful, even before the pain-
just know you are remembered as art,
a masterpiece that fell apart.