The Liquid Eye

For the one waiting A last day must come Lock a cold chain Around the hoping heart A veil of shame And sooner or later The race will be on Competing in depravity The sordid game Nights to come Gradual descent Red narcotic horizon Resist no more The future is not ours to evaluate I've changed therefore Gave up the semblance The varnish dissolved My currency expired See the pact waning Through the liquid eye Claim the defeating prize My belongings all packed away Elsewhere in the city I remember the light of the day Off-white and elusive