The Liquid Eye

For the one waiting

A last day must come

Lock a cold chain

Around the hoping heart

A veil of shame

And sooner or later

The race will be on

Competing in depravity

The sordid game

Nights to come

Gradual descent

Red narcotic horizon

Resist no more

The future is not ours to evaluate

I've changed therefore

Gave up the semblance

The varnish dissolved

My currency expired

See the pact waning

Through the liquid eye

Gradual descent

Red narcotic horizon

Resist no more

(Claim the defeating prize)

The future is not ours to evaluate

I've changed therefore

My belongings all packed away

Elsewhere in the city

I remember the light of the day

Off-white and elusive