Long red fingernails slide over long held convictions
Flicking remorse and regret across the bed and out the door
Do you know what you’re doing here?
Do you think its desire?
In a game of he said, she said,
he said always wins.
Do you know what you’re doing here?
Do you think it’s a game?
Truth is a scar you can never erase
It throbs in a darkness.
You can never escape.
Do you know what you’re doing here?
Do you think it’s a sin?
Sanctimonious conviction is a dark red welt on your back
Words you said under pressure.
You can never retract.
Crass comments in public, they shame you
You hide from the light, like an-
Emu?
Your head in the sand, you think you are grand
But you know you’re not right, secrets don’t hide.
Even at night.
Do you know what you’re doing here?
Do you think about power?
The things you held onto out in the dark
Were nebulous and cold and forever apart.
You put on a suit and a tie
But you are no more than the sum of your lie
Do you know what you’re doing here?
You never owned the minds even as you played with the bodies
You can hold it forever until you are dead
But desire and power were all in your head
Yours was a moment paid for with cash
Gone in an instant, no more than a flash
Do you know what you’re doing here?
They thought different thoughts to what you think that they thought.
And now in your coffin, you’re all cold and all still
They go on singing, they dance and they laugh
While deep underground the worms eat their fill.
Do you know what you did here?
A Tuesday Latte 