Architecture

Cast me down, lose your grip

It's all the same by now

Drinking poison, one more sip

All the things I thought I'd never allow

Have slowly come about

Drip by drip, drowning me in doubt

Slowly now, do not upset

The teetering towers of conjecture 

Such impressively pitiful architecture 

Can't escape them yet

Pick me up, bruise my skin

Tracing the circles still

All the things it could have been 

Lost to a loss of will 

Caught in past mistakes 

Shame is all it takes 

To push the faces down 

Further and further into the dirt

Still pretending it doesn't hurt

To sink until you drown

Leave me here, one more time

Drawing further into myself constantly 

After all, it's no crime

To pretend you never see 

All the damage done

By and to everyone

Please, let us not upset 

The deeply ingrained biases 

Shrouded beneath weaponized piousness

Can't escape them yet