Mask your Spirit

So try and dismiss that you’ve been remiss
You couldn’t recognize the lies, or wouldn’t you?
Now you lost, stay, accost me, you’ve been crossed
Twice and again, now it costs too much for you
To pay with casual nonchalance
That seems to only help you use ignorance
Wrought cold dark iron cooled by taunts
Built in the burning wick of the seance
Formed in a life with no more jaunts
Because you gave ‘em up when you donned this mask.

Try to stay on task
Just stay on task
Don’t you dare to ask
What could make the mask mask the spirit?
Look down before you attempt to rear it

Somewhere, somehow, some time I lost mine
A memorable forgotten wispy bit of rhyme
That’s blankness in my head, I never lived that moment
A miscalculation blocking the blow meant
For me to stare at the starry prize
Bright lights staying,burning and melting my eyes
They’re easier to swallow like that you realize
But you know that the crocodile cries
Only when he has safely donned his mask

Try to stay on task
Just stay on task
Don’t you dare to ask
What should make the mask mask the spirit?
Look in before you attempt to sear it

Now you’re running scared because you dared
To give in and listen to that bitch, temptation
So how have you fared now that you’ve stared
For too long, you won the contest in desperation
You couldn’t hide your face
She took up that empty place
The sanctuary from the race
Making sure you kept your pace
Now you’re no longer safe after you’ve donned this mask

Try to stay on task
Just stay on task
Don’t you dare to ask
What makes the mask mask the spirit?
Look out before you attempt to clear it

It’s shattered, sharded, should be discarded
But you now know, you can’t let go until you’re eaten by the crow
You shouldn’t see, a hollow me, trying to stand upon a broken knee
It buckles, meets bleeding knuckles and all he does is chuckles
Why couldn’t you know how amusing is this?
The sensation is anything but adulterated bliss
It keeps me alive, cringing from the touch of a kiss
Discord meet unity and harmonize in a face so ferrous
That it might as well be that you have donned a mask

Try to stay on task
Just stay on task
Don’t you dare to ask
What made the mask mask the spirit?
Look up before you start to fear it

The return of the 10 minute poem! Sorry it’s not very good, it’s been awhile since I rhymed in writing. Started at 3:45 finished at 3:55.