Idealist

by Jordan Martyr

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If the truth sounds good, there’s something wrong.
There’s something wrong with us all.
To find the dream made out of ice cream and tack it to the palace wall.
Don’t you ever check the ingredients?
Nightmares down the hatch.
Patchwork algorithms by the batch.
Unfullfilled dreams are the viral illness we catch.

It’s not me. I’m free. My eyes do not see.
I see with my dreams and my dreams do serve me.
Slight of hand never fools me.
I know your next move.
Your motivation is clear to me.
This game is mine and I don’t mind to lose.

I give my ego unto you. May you teach me new plays.
I take your ethos back to night and cast my gaze for, maybe, two days.
If the balance makes waves, I’ll try my best to give due craze.
If you bring to me new ways, I’d will to you my true praise.
I’m not coming from a dark place.
It brings me no joy to bring the bad news
I’m just telling you the sad truth.
I wish there was something more that I could do
you seem to think it pleasures me more than what claim to see when I can say I’m right.
But, I want nothing more than to turn around and eat my words when another truth is in sight.
It’s not me. I’m free. My eyes do not see.
I see with my dreams and my dreams do serve me.
Slight of hand never fools me.
I know your next move.
Your motivation is clear to me.
This game is mine and I don’t mind to lose.
Dark powers circle around the paths that you chose.
Hard water lies lie in corners of rooms.
Watch for the signs when you’re faced by the clues.
Turn on the blinders. Lock eyes with the ruse.

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released January 6, 2014

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