chaos from within

cowering like settlers on someone else's land

mistaking advances of the natives

who have come to lend a hand

it's a sad and pathetic badge of shame

my friends

terror always seems to win

in the drama of human motivation

where is restraint and reason?

threat is urgent

existential

with patience wearing thin

but the danger's elemental

it's chaos from within

the fox-stained leaves of civilization

depict a stark repeat

it's always a flaw in reasoning

that fates the citizenry

when the ancestor fell from the arbor

the march of fear began

but the predator wallowed in failure

in the face of consciousness

threat is urgent

existential

time to scan the horizon

but the danger's elemental

it's chaos from within

threat is urgent

existential

omnipresent like a skin

but the danger's purely mental

it's chaos from within

chaos from within!