Tic-Tac-Toe

I'm sick of the fringes

Sick of these twinges

Sick of the exes on exes on exes

Sick of them grinnin

Should've known beginnin

Choosing between

you shouldn't and don't

When you give in,

Winning you won't.

Tic

Don't got nowhere to go.

Tac

It's all a game don't you know?

Toe!

Oh, three in a row!

Wake alone in the dark

With no virtue to hold.

Lose the mind, mind, body, and soul

As you dizzy, busy, hissing, and scold.

My secrets like Texas

Makes me humble, yet feckless

Too big, too much, reds a bit reckless,

Speed limit, itself, so high it could wreck us

Uh

No respect, no respect

My internal complex

I let that shit out cuz I don't deserve it

Ooo no

Too deep I swerve it.

My past is just bullshit.

Wise men know

with more pressure and time,

the higher the karat.

Tic

What I got left to show?

Tac

It's just four lines and a goal!

Toe!

Oh, xs and os!

Letter on letter, I throw down a hole!

My heart has been better,

Yet mind's on parole!

The P.O. be callin

But no one is home.

Just

Run-in.

Runnin far from the test!

Run-in

Avoiding eyes of ya crest!

Run-in

I'm not at my best

Or maybe I am, oh God, pray be jest,

Cuz I can't live, can't live like this!

I hide from the light, the mirror’s a mask;

Boogeyman, boogeyman: reflecting, distracts.

Distracts from the future

Distracts from the tracks

Distracts from the train

That I finally conduct

Distracts from the fork

Distracts from the sure

Fact of the matter that a bridge has been cored!

If I don't switch the track right before,

I'll gift your eyes. ..

with a stereotypical metaphor!

Tic

I've seen this move before...

Tac

Great I'm trapped, your score.

Toe!

Oh! Further I go

Thought I saw Alice,

Digging alone.

I'm down at the bottom,

A ton out the way.

The bedrock is grindin

My drill, oh dismay.

I rushed here blindly

No value did seek,

Just deeper and deeper

The depth, only me.

As I finally break

This tool, too late;

I've landed in Hades, Hades in haste.

Hercules can't replace

The wire, I face

The scissors of fates;

Be served up on plates;

Will bitter or sweet tongue of death taste?

I realize this place, a quagmire, waste!

I need out,

Double the pace!

Tic

Fingers bleed as I toil

Tac

Scrambling up from the soil

Toe!

Oh! I got to go!

The mantle below left my crust a-boil.

Sweatin, shiny, shimmering foil;

Lightning rebound, just like a coil.

Copper, conductive, electrical royal:

Ohm halting more than fair share of spoils

Sure to destroy us,

Heating, heating, 'til fire gives thrust

Resistance is futile,

but needed, a must

For these

Circuits,

Circus

We're just the animals, work us.

Rings,

Promise,

Half and the kids if I want it!

Vindictive,

Heartless,

Avoiding being the farthest

from all that which what parts us

From what connects, detects, erects

The truth, love; future prospects.

Tic

I gotta polish, be gold

Tac

Old game, new strategy, bold!

Toe!

Oh! I gotta get gone.

Got love to spread

New horizon, a dawn.

Who would've thought

One simple loss

For a sick mind

To bring positive thought.

Depth from the shallows

Haunts, hallows,

Puts you in place 'til grave or the gallows.

Overthought,

Binded, distraught,

Wracking my brain

When nothing is wrong....

Tic

Tac

Toe