Smokey fingers

Reaching for the sky

Painting the stars gray

And as I watch from below

I wish I could follow

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Glowing embers

Slender between my fingers

Cast their artificial starlight

On my un-reality

And so in the shadows

I am a black and white angel

Hiding behind the acid mask

I have created

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Once upon a midnight

I lived in reality

But now I am bound to a world

That I conceived, my masquerade

Made of acid wine

And smoked glass

Outside looking in