Empathetic Dreams of Men

Leverage your rhymes to take the space
Burning the inbetweens
Soaking up the falling souls
Lying about your existence
You couldn't feel if you wanted too

Trusting those who care least about your ambitions
Blindfolded against the hate
Manacled to protect them against you
Visions resplendid cast against the backdrop of intolerance
As heads bow pleading ignorance against chance

Cupped in a circle of tears
Drinking in the purity cannot cleanse the vulgar distractions
Acidic tongues spit venom scaring the sacred vestiges that remain
They bathe in the rivers of blood flowing among the bodies of the dammed
Lest they be dammed themselves

Ghostly mannequins figured in incredulous mistrust
Take a smile and twist it into inconsolable grief
Wrought by the hands of the forsaken
Chosen and discarded remnants from the dreams of men
Taken and stored as relics in a frozen heart