Colony - Mil-Spec

Step right in, into my quarantine

Where thoughts I cannot trace

Have formed a colony

Repaint, remodel, recast, and revise

Rework every meaning in my mind

Someone said

If only what we hope

Could become what we know

Just as surely as we grow old

Every promise is a prophecy

But nothing’s guaranteed

And my silence

Has not protected me

Step right in, into my quarantine

Where thoughts I cannot trace

Have formed a colony

Repaint, remodel, recast, and revise

Rework every meaning in my mind

Someone said

If only what we borrow

Could become what we own

Just because we say so

The contagion is airborne

We know what’s inside

And it burns

The future’s a dreamscape

We know what we’ve lost

And it burns

Every promise is a prophecy but nothing’s guaranteed

And my silence has not protected me

No sanctuary