What am I hiding?
What do I fear?
Everything’s easy,
nothing is real.
The world is an eggshell
under my heel.
I’m naked and empty,
my weakness revealed.
I’m nothing and no one.
All of my designs
all fade in the daylight
and change in the night
to monsters and demons
that give no respite.
Cut off one head
and two more arise.
No rest for the wicked.
No alms for the poor.
No window escape plan.
No hidden door.
The way out is plainly
something much more
the conclusion is obvious;
this ends in a war.
I know I know nothing.
I better learn quick.
The water is rising.
The quagmire thick.
The enemy’s coming,
it’s time to make plans,
better learn how to wrestle
and work with my hands.
The sky is still up there,
the fire below
and in between endless
human life still unfolds.
I’m giving up Easy,
sacrificing my gold,
for why gain the whole world
just to lose my soul?
I’ll leave as I came here,
helpless and cold,
alone and afraid,
but at least I’ll know,
that I made the mistakes
that were mine to commit
and did my best, always
and I never quit.
-HG
