Surgery of the lie

 Heal the wound it is the brimming pain
I have seen the frugal rise
and the ostentatious dim perish
until the earth has opened up

Stitch this cut this ongoing regret
reinforce my rebirth kindle hope
Freshen my eye to this world of violence
bath me in the reality of it's ills

guide me to the path of pilgrimage
teach me sacrifice and humility
nights are dead silent yet shadows dance rapidly
Across the refugee camps inside our nightmares

Help to disassemble the illusions grand and well built
those falsities that I've celebrated as truths
Until they solidified like bars on a prison door
Keeping me well contained feeding off the lie

Now cut it out as one would an abssess
take away my need for want, need for excess
purify me in the world's one unseen
cut the lie right out of me