Charlatan Dreams -

Like a prison

Hiding in the open

My own fiction

That’s holding me captive

The smoke and mirrors

Show me clearer

Like an escape artist

With a rusted key

Locked inside my doubts

I am undeserving

Of you anyway

And I will be found out

It’s the irony

That I can’t believe

In myself in victory or defeat

Is it tragedy

That I can not sleep

At night

Without willingly dreaming these

Charlatan dreams

It is so criminal

How long I have been

Hidden in plain sight

The cycle weighs

Heavy on my conscience

How I’m portrayed

Feels so misleading

It’s the irony

That I can’t believe

In myself in victory or defeat

Is it tragedy

That I can not sleep

At night

Without willingly dreaming these

Charlatan dreams

The smoke and mirrors

Show me clearer

It’s the irony

That I can’t believe

In myself in victory or defeat

Is it tragedy

That I can not sleep

At night

Without willingly dreaming these

Charlatan dreamsv