Seeing Red Is a Poor Descriptor
when people talk about anger
and its power to take over you
they call it
"seeing red."
but honestly, I don't see that;
all the colours still look the same.
what you see doesn't change at all--
it's the way you feel it that does
"seeing red" is an out-of-body experience
and something about the world doesn't feel right anymore.
it's distorted somehow
like the earth is spinning off-kiler
and then so am I
there's no sense of control
the point of no return was long ago signaled
but you honestly aren't sure when it happenend.
a switch that has been quietly flipped, perhaps
or a cliff that you've jumped off on accident
but maybe you thought you were dreaming;
I don't know.
I don't know anything
except that when it comes over me
there's no rationalising, no control
and I am the loose nuclear canon missile
that wreaks havoc and destroys,
leveling whole cities
and the entire world in its wake.
and its power to take over you
they call it
"seeing red."
but honestly, I don't see that;
all the colours still look the same.
what you see doesn't change at all--
it's the way you feel it that does
"seeing red" is an out-of-body experience
and something about the world doesn't feel right anymore.
it's distorted somehow
like the earth is spinning off-kiler
and then so am I
there's no sense of control
the point of no return was long ago signaled
but you honestly aren't sure when it happenend.
a switch that has been quietly flipped, perhaps
or a cliff that you've jumped off on accident
but maybe you thought you were dreaming;
I don't know.
I don't know anything
except that when it comes over me
there's no rationalising, no control
and I am the loose nuclear canon missile
that wreaks havoc and destroys,
leveling whole cities
and the entire world in its wake.