Shine a light

Your orchestrated egress was a study in futility

A choreographed performance of feigned invisibility

You claim a distant vantage, some remote and cold plateau

Yet your silhouette is cast upon the very stage you forego

The resonance of your footsteps echoes through the atrium

A rhythmic contradiction to your self-imposed soliloquy

We observe the subtle tremors of your lingering momentum

A lingering ghost within this hollowed-out periphery.

​(Pre-Chorus)

Did you anticipate a vacuum? A commemorative silence?

Did you hope the architecture would collapse in your absence?

But the spatial coordinates remain stubbornly fixed

And the truth of your proximity is hopelessly mixed.

​(Chorus)

For you are crystalline and vitreous, a diaphanous deceit

A spectral inhabitant in a glass-walled retreat

We perceive the palpitations through the superficial rind

The architecture of your presence is impossible to unbind

Transparent as a lens, we navigate the aperture

And find no evidence of your purported departure

The facade is an abstraction, an intellectualized mask

But seeing through the artifice is an elementary task.

​(Verse 2)

Your vernacular is dense with polysyllabic diversions

A linguistic fortification built on dubious assertions

You utilize the lexicon of the vanished and the void

To camouflage the ego that you’ve meticulously employed

But the refractive index of your character is high

And the light betrays the contours of your elaborate lie

We witness the displacement of the atmosphere you occupy

A physical necessity you can neither mask nor mollify.

​(Bridge)

It is an ontological stalemate, a conceptual paradox

The prisoner who claims to have picked all the locks

While remaining in the center of the illuminated cell

Refusing to acknowledge that we know the story well

Your "elsewhere" is a fiction, a semantic hallucination

A desperate attempt at a metaphysical vacation.

​(Chorus)

For you are crystalline and vitreous, a diaphanous deceit

A spectral inhabitant in a glass-walled retreat

We perceive the palpitations through the superficial rind

The architecture of your presence is impossible to unbind

Transparent as a lens, we navigate the aperture

And find no evidence of your purported departure

The facade is an abstraction, an intellectualized mask

But seeing through the artifice is an elementary task.

​(Outro)

The charade is redundant.

The masquerade is exhausted.

You are irrevocably present.

Indelibly accounted for.

Vitreous.

Obvious.

Here.