Frail

The air is thick with strangers
 Laughing through your screaming lungs
 Imploding in your chest like death
 Absent exit signs ignite the flames,
 The fear, the rage that tear down walls
 Alas, in dreams alone they all collapse
 These hoarders of paragraphs
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 And alibis and secret lies and hollow needs
 And enemies that draw you in
 These pillars of everything mundane
 Are but a gateway to oblivion
 Fever burning, weak and pale
 Like vultures to the wounded they'll come
 You can't afford to be this frail
 They'll steal you
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 Not cut out to follow
 Nor fit to rule
 A dethroned king of diamonds
 In the garments of a fool
 This jest of chaos
 This irony of common fate
 Some like dominoes
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 Some like angels
 Apart
 In love
 From grace
 We fall fall fall
 Fever burning, weak and pale
 You can't afford to be this frail
 Like vultures to the wounded they'll come
 To steal you
 Deceive you
 Mislead you
 Erase you