BURN (Wattys2015?)

Redemption's A Joke

Redemption?

Ha! No redemption for the devil

No redemption for me

I'm past the point

when I could turn back

And say, "I'm sorry"

"Forgive me"

No, my friend

I do not ask for forgiveness

How could I?

I did nothing wrong

In my own eyes

All I did was light a match

And watch your precious little houses

Your precious little gardens

Your precious children

burn like straw drenched in gasoline

You set them up for failure

No, my friend

I did nothing wrong

But sit back

And watch the flames

Lick at the soles of your feet

You should have been more careful

To mess around with the likes of me

I warned you from the start

What would happen

And now look:

It happened!

Why are you so shocked?

Liven up a little

We're all crazy underneath

We're all devils

We all have demons

Stop acting like I'm something from a nightmare

This world is a nightmare

Chaos, chaos, chaos

Everywhere

It's not my fault?

It's not even your fault

You know who's fault it is?

No one's.

Stop blaming me for

breaking a rule or two

Because we all break rules

We all desperately claw

at the fringes of right

and wrong

Just some of us are a little stronger

Some of us cross the lines

Call me crazy

Call me a monster

I'm not a monster

And I'm not crazy

I'm just different

Smarter than the rest

I've stopped fitting into your perfect little molds

Symmetry?

Ha!

The jagged lines make for a much, much

more interesting picture

Don't you think?

I don't want your forgiveness

I don't want your punishment

I just want to be left alone

While I ruin everything you've worked so hard in

Because that's the fun part of life, isn't it?

Watching someone waste so much time

Working so hard to achieve something

But when you just huff and puff

And blow a little bit

It all falls down

Vanity, my dear

Never leads to great things

Madness, my love

Always leads to things that people remember

Do you want to be forgotten?

I refuse to let anyone forget me

Or look me over

No!

They're going to stop and stare

And maybe they'll scream?

Maybe they'll cry out in fear?

Or maybe they'll learn to love me?

I don't care what they do

As long as they look at me

And don't forget me

Or what I've done

So don't you dare point fingers at me

Or call me a devil

Or call me a demon

Or call me a fiend

No, my friend

I'll take your finger and break it

Just step back

Just step down

And watch everything burn with me

We'll set the world on fire

It's already so full of chaos

Add a little flame

And boom!

Order

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Oh, my goodness, look! I've actually capitalized things. Shocker.