"legerdemain"

I just can't stick with one style or mood for very long ;) Legerdemain, by the way, for anyone who doesn't know, is a french word meaning slight of hand.. trick... I like the word a lot, and it seemed to fit with this. *HUGS* Comments appreciated =P
"legerdemain"
life is a fragile
bitter way
so bruised
there's nothing left
to save
broken shells
upon the shelf
slain by the hands
of someone else
"if i die
i want to die myself"
we are the aching
heaving waves
time is a sentimental
chain
it wastes and displaces
fames
battered eyes
inside a box
trapped here by
someone else's locks
"just for once
i want to be the fox"
we are the ever
embryonic brain
love is a forgotten
jewel
so tired
we burn ourselves
for fuel
shattered minds
inside our shells
long lost pennies
in rotting wells
"i want to burn
in my own hells"
we are
the envoys of fate
so cruel
and what i had is lost
and what i had is dead
and all my stars have been crossed
and all my footsteps misled
by a simple trick of fate
by a simple trick of mind
the chip upon my shoulder
well, it is solely mine
"if i have to fall
let it be by my mistakes
and if i have to burn
let them be my stakes
and if you let me die
let my hands hold the knife
but if you make me live
let it be my life."
we are the bitter barren children
the strangers in the strangest land
a slight of fate's hand, a trick
of the light
alone we cross deserts
in the wasteland of the night.