The Tower

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The daunting height of human creation

Rises to the sky a callous cultivation

Of unbridled and unyielding fallacies

Built on the misconceptions and libels

Of the Infernal Tower

The underlying principal of humanity

Our misguided Belief

That the skies are ours to take

Do not reach for the Skies

The Tower will bring them

Do not weep for your freedom the Tower will keep you hidden

 

No, I do not belong to the Tower

If the pinnacle of Humanity resides in a black machine of Death

Let me take no part

There is no soul in that machine

They say there is no hate

Yet, if there is no hate

There is no love

Let me love and let me hate

For I am but one

And that number is greater than all the armies residing in your Tower

 

You say your Tower will bring the Utopia

I have seen your vision

Peace

Snaking

Through the halls of our Dead Fathers

Harmony

Releasing a

Cacophony

That will make even the deaf cover their ears

This is your Tower

 

No I want no part

Let me become like the Blue Feathered Children of the Sky

The incarnations of Angels upon Earth

Not forced to lie bound in your Tower

But free to roam about the skies

And surf the wind

Please allow freedom to engulf my wings

Let the symphony of independence

Rise above and proclaim that all of us can escape the Tower

 

You want our undying devotion

To your meaningless cause

You seek only to reform us to conform

To break our beliefs and to

Crack our Souls into fractals

That splinter and fall under the brutish world’s trampling feet

Slicing into the soles of their heels

Making them cry aloud

Persecute Them

Persecute Them

 

Forgive me and forgive them

I beg

It was the Tower

That Infernal Tower

That whispers in their ears

That we are responsible for their bleeding feet

That the shards of our ruined souls that cut the soles of their feet

Was not a malicious ploy

 

No, do not believe the Tower

Do not give in

Come escape the confinement of the Tower

Join the light

Let us rejoice

Hand in hand

That we have found each other

 

But then you turn and look at me and say

Can you not see it

Look up

You too live in a Tower

Your are locked behind a door

And will never escape

 

But every locked door has a key

Somewhere

And in the eternal darkness

All we need is a light

To find our key and escape

Our Tower

 

 

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