Canvas - Sacrificium

My face the canvas for your vision of me

Happy smiley face, too weak for life itself

Corrupted — superhuman — hypocrite with a halo

Prisoner and hostage of its own faith

The vision — distorted, not me at all

What you hate and fear, projected on me

Lack of knowledge, lack of mind

Fearing I’d wipe the clouds from your eyes

I struggle, I fight, I fall, I bleed, but my soul is free

I suffer, I starve, I cry, I die, but my soul is free

Despair, one of my worst enemies

Brave enough to admit, my human weakness

Prison, hostage and their guard I see too

Anxious to see how they trying to get out

My scars are telling the story — I am human

Trying to survive this place — nothing else

Trying to survive this place — but not alone

Trying to hold my feet on the ground

(I am not alone)

I struggle, I fight, I fall, I bleed, by bloody reality

I suffer, I starve, I cry, I die, my soul is free

Smiley face protects me from killing

Fighting the infinite reasons to hate

Trying to survive this place, everyday

Smiling face on the canvas survives