All Aboard.

‘All aboard!’ The great deceiver cries

spitting his words with lust in his eyes.

As the people board he licks his lips

and from his lips a poison drips

it travels around the station ground

attaching itself to the people around.

 

‘You’re young, you’re free, you only live once!’

His words twist sharply and turn to the hunt.

Like birds caught in cages the people applaud

giving praise to the freedom

they perceive has been born.

 

For the driver keeps feeding

and the people keep eating

they laugh and they dance and they joke.

But all in all it’s a masquerade ball

with blindfolds stretched over their eyes.

 

The deceiver says; ‘There’s no need to end!

Set the drinks and the music again!

Keep dancing! Keep shouting!

Keep laughing! Keep pouting!

It makes it all the more fun.

 

And as the girl with nice clothes

wipes the powder from her nose

she actually sees control.

And as that boy in aisle four

grabs at her leg once more

she giggles and welcomes his plan.

For none do perceive that they’re being deceived

when bondage appears so free.

 

The microphone clicks.

A silence sits.

A deep a darkened mist.

‘And now ladies and gentlemen

my favourite twist.

 I’ll make you believe.

I don’t even exist.’