At last, as we plunge into the abscess Blighted spirits so bereft Shameful weeping, voices echo from the bottom of a well Can you hear the cries of worn out phrases From listless gazes, pretentious lingering in childish phases The heartless hand and empty gestures The pitiful searching for hollow pleasures Lost in a palace of mirrors Staring at infinite reflections gazing back Too near to see the mark of shame Lost in empty dialectics, the art of building up and tearing down Of discussing all things and accomplishing nothing Of compromised ideals, friendships abandoned Our works substandard, principles meandering So speak our names as a warning, as a curse, as a failure At last, it's time to die, so die