Steps to Evanescence

STEP 1

If I assume the position

Disguising conscription

And brighten my appearance

T'ward blinding ambition

STEP 2

They'll never see what they don't want to see

Coming to them instead of from me

They'll see reason in assuming such coherence

Is destiny teasing a fools' Pyrrhic victory

STEP 3

Diffraction is deceptive

For the blindly receptive

And in their way, things' final clearance

Falls wayside, irrespective

STEP 4

They won't know what they misunderstand

They won't be shamed by the Motherland

They won't reconsider their dogged adherence

When they follow True South fogged by command

STEP 5

Lemmings dance my cadence of drumming

And follow the footfalls in precipitous numbing

They won't detect the refractive interference

Of the coup de grâce they'll never see coming

STEP 6

Once they goose-step in lockstep overstep

Towing my line's clean slate, overswept

The toxic evanescence is hypoxic disappearance

Till they fade, not knowing, how they so overslept