Gravitational Lensing

Into what goes on forever
Beyond perspectives lost
Caleidoscope vision
Introspective display
What hides in plain sight

Force it into my head
Now is the only time
Hiding behind a lie
All I know

I cast the fire

Inside these hours
All alone
For I am in denial
Though never again will I
Direct my shields
Against another
But turn it on myself

Come back
To something I need
Come back to misery
Living the misdirection
All I know
The further off center
My lies become

Force it into my head
Now is the only time
Hiding behind a lie
All I know

I cast the fire

Inside these hours
All alone
For I am in denial
Though never again will I
Direct my shields
Against another
But turn it on myself

No sight - unseen
No light - in between
Gravitational lensing
What they see
Is bent around my lies

Around this black hole
I have found myself again
Brought out the answers
For my seeing eyes only
Travelling in circles
I have found myself again
No way to face it straight
Inside the lonely

Here in the night of nights
Where nothing shines
I brought the flame down
On it all - unforgiving
In time the flame will die
The only hope I have to find
To never deny, never regret
The masquerade is over

As long as I cast the fire

Inside these hours
All alone
For I am in denial
Though never again will I
Direct my shields
Against another
But turn it on myself