Hotspur

O, while you live, tell truth and shame the devil!

Shakespeare

We come to this place for the first time
knowing
we've walked through these gates before
a hell where every dance floor
is turned into an encore of war

We know the smell well
that death knell
the stairwell
we took to another floor
thinking we'd simply come to explore
more

But we fell
like so many abandoned dreams
dried in an inkwell
all of them spelled by my personal infidel
my dinner bell

My everything
in one crazy nutshell

We come to this place once again
looking to amend the pretend
that's caused us all to descend
to upend
to miscomprehend

We come to know it
for the first time
as it never was
to insert a clause
to fix the faux pas
we've stitched with glory and applause
thinking it was gauze

We come knowing this is how
we
set caged birds free
we, the eternal escapees

filigreed in gold
singing songs of the untold
both reckless and bold

We come
to make a brand new mold


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02/03/2023

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