Empire! Empire! It's A Plague And You're Invited
all of this time i should have known, but we buried our
hopes in our throats.
and though it spared us from honesty, it could not deny
anything else.
after the air cleared and the anger left our bodies, we
slept more soundly.
we slept more soundly!
on denton, where you realized the full weight of what you
had done,
you felt ashamed for the first time.
but still refused to admit that you were wrong!
i swore i would not carry your weight for you anymore
when,
at twenty-one, you cannot help yourself.
but in the time you were making up your mind, we still
held our breath.
so history repeats, and the feeling
that i will one day wake an old and empty man only drives
me harder.
even if you will not sacrifice your youth, it will grow
to resent you.
like a body of water, it will yield only to entrenched
earth.
i swore i would not carry your weight for you anymore
when,
at twenty-one, you cannot help yourself.
but in the time you were making up your mind, we already
knew.
