DEFENDER'S RAP

• The world pushes smoke endless rope for your yoke
• and you try to make the changes that give birth to hope
• but you can't quite find the right stride in time
• the bonds that bind hide inside and try to ride your sighs
• as you take the best way through mistakes
• and as you wake the rest stays through this waste
• the pieces push together like the repertoire of letters
• these fetters ever-growing like the grimoires of scared settlers
• where the monster lurks thirsty for the blood that bursts murky
• veins open up in a slow pour without mercy
• and the perfection of a system breaks down in its persistence
• insistent is the voice of death when you stop to listen
• but the gloom drops lower
• heart gives in to a beat somberly slower
• the beast's gulping swallows follow this rhythm
• the world wallows in derision you have to move with precision
• the decision looming and consuming energies blooming
• losing the room where the crooners are booming
• passing hovel homeless shelters helter skelter the weather swelters
• gassing through the neighborhood in beat up leather sketchers
• eyes skyward lifted high fear inspired
• breath shudders through the apparatus with bright fire
• conspire within the shadows and entirely with desire
• see a body fade and tire and toss it on the pyre
• Now when you get a chance opt for better topics
• like taking up a stance at the pulpit of Coptics
• cognizant of the top spots of better optics
• but getting caught up in the dance with a bullet in the pocket
• the octave rises like a rocket when you talk and just can't stop it
• popping up and locked in stocks because you like to mock it
• pocked and blocked as you cough and draw breath to hawk spit
• caustic insides cause your body to rock spasmodic
• punch through the walls of your cell your mind travels through time
• unraveling said mind in a spell that finds new climes
• a sublime climb inclined toward aligned lines divined
• divided by the rhythms and the schisms intertwined
• but with the ride rises a rival whose arrival is sly
• and it flies beside a tidal drive of a life gone awry
• The implications of the battle rattles the fearful cage
• a draped cape across the bars hides the frustration and the rage
• all these varied prisons carry symptoms of attrition
• and buried in the indifference is the precision of derision
• the conclusion an illusion words cease in their intrusion
• so resume the vapid monster that births delusion