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Necromancer

Am I peering through two way mirrors?
What's up with the smoke screens of delusion?
Because what I thought I knew suddenly changed.
Are you an illusionist, a soothsayer, a magic man of some kind?
Do you revel in the idea of pulling birds out of hats,
or of cutting this woman in half?
Surely it isn't so!
Only a self-righteous and arrogant man could do such.
Only one in love with a cheer from the pen wielding crowd.
Do you get off on some sort of head trip with your brand of
hocus pocus and trickery? Doesn't it bother you that someone may misinterpret your semblance of organized confusion?
Maybe apparitions from your secretive agenda are haunting
you now. Are you suffering from self- misconception?
How sad that must be to know the ghosts walking the halls
of your mind are those you created yourself.
Deceptive duplicity and hoaxes are your specialty.
They also come with a hefty price that few are prepared
to pay. Facades have nasty ways of taking their toll.
They eat you inside out devouring every tender morsel.
Can you hear the roar of the crowd now.......
do you see the velvet curtain opening slowly?
Maybe your swords will turn on you and cut you into bloodied halves of unrecognizable subterfuge.
The birds may fly from your hat and peck your eyes out of their sockets.
Maybe they want to fly free and are tired of hiding under your silk shroud.
The velvet curtain is inches away from revealing you now on your stage.
As it flings open.
The spotlight hits your face.
The crowd suddenly gets deathly quiet.
Your beautiful assistant brings you a one way mirror.
You look at your reflection
and you scream out a blood curdling sound.
The bloody and wretched face of a tortured man stares back at you.
Then again
Maybe it is just an illusion.
Magic
Man.
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Oh conjurer! or an Ignus Faatus you diviner of sorts.
Maybe he is a strategem to drive you mad.
Ironically you may very well drown in your own sorcery.
Possibly you can lurk around the rafters
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To trap your unknowing victim
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Written by firecrackerxx
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