Check and Balance

You'll introduce yourself, beaming, letting all know your name

And I'll come busting through, elegantly, discussing your shame

You'll present ideas that are bold and ingenius

and then my lips will separate and replace yours : seemless

I'll not kill you outright, but hurt you beyond repair

If pain is in your body, I'll be the image you'll have in your cross-hairs

You won't even be able to take breath without wondering

What would he think?

Ideas of your bright-burning self image will soon be replaced

By how I supersede them, you'll turn to loathing and hate

You'll experience a life unimaginable

Yet consider thanking me because I left it habitable

Isn't this what you need?

A means to be yourself without letting your ego breathe?

A constant shadow in the corner, beckoning wisdom,in showing my teeth

You've got a future ahead of you, so long as you don't get fleeced

The thought of me will both encourage and sicken

Empower and imprison

You'll have length but still chains

Your word plus my will equals great weight.

You cannot escape me no, even if your mind was to decay

I'll keep coming back to haunt you, if but only in rested states

You'll think I'm an entity but it'll be your gravest mistake

We're one and the same

darling dearest I'll scream loud and whisper subtle

I'll leave you at unease all of your being rustled

What do you say to this dance?

You have no choice as I grab your hands

I can't be a parasite if our relationship is mutual

If asked to leave I'll extend refusal

If you bleed I bleed

The space in your mind, you'll find I hide : Grief.