Red Canoe

Everything was a lie
Everything was a lie

He repeated it to himself
over and over again
Launching the red canoe
into the black lake

White fog danced
hauntingly over the water
Like a ghost that had just found
its lost body

They hide behind it
culture, money, power,
politics, laws
but it’s all a lie

A perfect disguise
for the vicious, dangerous
monsters they’ve become inside

They will not listen
We can not hear

Ride the red canoe
The time machine

Into the distant
misty endless dream