All across the canvas and the lives that it holds
all that wanted different stories, or so he was told
all their warm hearts though to him they seemed cold
all the diamond souls, to him depicted the greed of fossilized coal
as carbon emissions from the fuel of the fire that moulded the old
for
alone is happy, contextually
in that the idea would create amnesty
was his strategy
limited within it's insanity
that conceived, an ill-conceived vitality
of ones lifeless mentality
for
it wasn't him he wanted, no not even he
it was the imagination of who he could be
not him,
actually.