To Measure the World
Measure all the hearts
and the sacred words
carefully, carefully
See which way the scale tips.
Trapped and bound
by the shifting weights,
we live inside our own
imagination filled with hypocrisy.
To kill a deer,
one must paint the deer red.
So that when you pierce its heart
with your black arrow,
you are the one who bled.
The hawk cries out at this injustice,
so that as the deer died,
at least it died justified.
The scale tips.
To convict a demon,
you need not say words.
The halo forms on your head,
Paint your wings white,
With their innocent souls.
Too much words, and the demon
will twist them with his ugly tongue.
The scale tips.
Words are made of gold paint
and lips are made of silver.
Hearts are black
and pumped red with blood.
The scale, oh, the scale,
will one day
return to balance.