Obsidian Currents

You like to think that you can
Live beyond good and evil
Amputated from humanity
On some lifelong intellectual retreatEverything is conceptual and
All is rhetorical
You can feel so powerfulWhen you're forced to face the physical world
You scurry like an insectThere is a virus in your tenets
Don't be naive, you know it's true
And if you don't protect yourself
Obsidian currents
Will devour youYou have committed yourself
Wholly to the dominion of semantics and ideas
All things cerebral and abstract
No patience for impractical emotionsBurning everyone who
Ever try to get close to you
But you're so lizard-like you don't
Feel any passion for anyone but yourselfThere is a virus in your tenets
Don't be naive, you know it's true
And if you don't protect yourself
Obsidian currents
Will devour you