Know This

-Know This-
by Keaton Foster
Short Verse



Know this
Take my hand
Ignore the sweat
Pay no mind
To the trembling.

I want you to see
You must be shown
The unbelievable to
Adequately understand.

This fact based façade
Is built upon a castle of lies
No one knows what's inside
No one but the real me.

Placed upon its pedestal
A sacred anti-social brick
It was once thrown at me
Hitting me right in the head
God almighty did it ever hurt.

Such pain, impossible to escape
I have never been the same since
I am as conflicted as I am complicated
I have my values and I wear them like skin.

But what is beneath is certainly unlike
What I carefully allow others to know
I give them a taste, but I am always sure to leave
Them as hungry as a pack of ravenous dogs.

In time, I know that they will turn on each other
I will enjoy the show, the level in which
I know that they will sink pleases me
The line between sadist and narcissist
Is getting shorter all of the time.

If you are curious, if you are willing
If the nature of your being is to know more
Even if what it is will leave you feeling empty
With a massive hole in the center of your chest
Then please, oh please, come on in.

The doors to this prison of flesh open inward
From this day forward
You will fight to fill the hole in your chest
Such an impossible void of misunderstanding is
Is a true detriment of our species.

Know this, I am aware of more than most
I could teach you all that you wish
But then again, such lessons would leave you
No closer to understanding a damn thing…




Know This Written by Keaton Foster
Copyright © 2012

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