Daft Illusion

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Tippy toe,

Iron boots

You and Miss

Dipped-in-Steel

 

Live your lives like iron humans

Spell's been cast

You've smashed

Through porcelain mask,

Still a dance

ensues

The plague inside

Of your suits,

Consumed

By Narcissis plight

 

Insecure,

You dress down, both

In a daft illusion

 

Airbrush suits back on,

Iron delusion

Emperor's got no clothes

Yea, but who can see that,

You quietly whisper

 

Hopeless affliction

Your own and you're our

Hopeless affliction

Daft illusion

 

So tippy toe,

Iron boots

You and Miss

Dipped-in-Steel

Don't wake us

 

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redbrick's picture

This paints a different

This paints a different picture from what my mind and reading conjure but perhaps are more linked than what first appears on the surface. I saw Iron Man and his cohort and the whole range pov of society and the cosmos. Of course there's that and the dollar generating factor of the MCU. And this is a reading of only one viewpoint of your ironclad poem. 


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lyrycsyntyme's picture

Thank you, sir. And, well

Thank you, sir. And, well done, tapping into my mindset. There are definitely elements of all that you imagined influencing the poem, playing somewhat as metaphor for figures in the real world, while also attempting to express the way that - as ever - "(super)heroes" are often mirrors of a culture.