Traphouse - Ilsa

Bow

Pledge addiction

Allegiance

To vain narration

And conquest of our dreams

Our warped windows

Poorly masked misery

Already so familiar

In its anonymity

Busted freights flash by

I hear I’ll learn, in time

To tune out the squeals

Of steel

The fumes of shit and decay

Foul, festering depths

Of inflicted wounds

All the nightmares

I never remember

For all the wasted days

I can’t forget

I tire of this stubbornness

Inevitable regrets

No delusions of clarity

Outside subjectivity

I seek simple pleasure

Worn out

Patch-worked

Into obscurity

Trampled underfoot, all life

That springs forth afresh

Unnoticed, till broken

Under grinding wheels

Through endless repetition

Endless repetition

And worship

Of petty variations

Narcissus watches up

From his shallow grave

We stare back

Oblivious to resemblance