Patronage

Contingent valuation
Inevitable answer sought
Benefit to self interest
Hypothetical bias negating validity

Meta data with a known outcome
Distort the empirical basis
Factual proposition based on rationale
Certainty without context

Sound the horns
Your fragile words
Tolling in the burden of silence

Your vision, a dream, a stupor
Yet I follow
And prove myself

Incongruity and choice have no place here
Hold up the mirror, see beyond the reflection

Malformed enough to be written
Into abject history
The pen writes with tainted ink
With each turn, I cleanse myself

No truth in what you speak
Make me believe in your lie

A state collapsing
Inward, crushing motion

When the world chokes on disillusion
Creators hear the echoes
As brittle towers collide