Love Poem: Harlequin
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Written by: Matt Mulkey

Harlequin

She's a mirror to the outside world
Prostetic porcelain girl
She appears as a rag doll torn
An honest case
Still born
Tried so hard to make the show
To condemn it all to hell
I guess I will never know
How to diminish the spell

Shrouded in the lucid dream
I will number the dead
You can never escape the clutches 
Of my fragile Harlequin

Sweet aftertaste of genocide
Hidden in this stitch
Laced in a smiling frown for me
Advertise innocence
If I knew it'd end like this
There'd be no finger prints

Shrouded in the lucid dream
I will number the dead
You can never escape the clutches 
Of my fragile Harlequin

Feeling daunted
I lay defeated
For everyone to see

Shrouded in the lucid dream
I will number the dead
You can never escape the clutches 
Of my fragile Harlequin

Take your
Take your
Lobotomy
I know better than to be
I know I'm the last to leave
My shattered Harlequin