Fool

• Artist: WordsWillCome
• Description: Written during a time in my life that i pretty much felt hopeless and foolish. Yet I've always been a happy child so i felt the pressure to maintain a facade despite the fact that i was falling apart inside. I wrote this poem one night to just sort of let it all out.
• Date: 09/16/2008
• Tags: fool

Covered in my jester;s hat
I parade before them all
Giggling and laughing
Away the painted flaws

In a world that;s slowly dying
I dance in colors live and bright
Stepping to the pattern
Of a steadily fading life

They see the painted smile
And laugh at all my jokes
They never look beyond the skin
Or beyond the veil of smoke

They see a me of my design
Sketchy lines and fading gestures
Flamboyant colors penciled in
While gray roils and festers

I am the harlequin with brilliant eyes
The unseeing orbs so hollow
I am the bleeding heart unguarded
That the shadows slowly swallow

I am the star that shines so bright
That masks her tattering flaws
The jester with the lyrical voice
That answers beck and calls

Alas, but, I am poor Yurick
Faltering to my own demise
Imprisoned in this counterfeit body
And perpetuating the lies

That happy endings are an ending
That perfection has no flaws
True, every village has its idiot
And I;m the biggest fool of all