The Song the Android Sang

Adam Gorightly

Ancient Romans live today
As present maya fades to gray
What's real is false
And truth, a lie
Behold: an eye up in the sky!

Palmer Eldritch speaks my name
And asks me if I'll play the game
I'd rather not, is my reply
As overhead there winks the eye
Of VALIS, with its bright pink beam
Illuminating twilight dreams.

Oh Phil, the pills you took were yin
And yang at the same time, it seemed
The demon angel heaven hell
You lived, is where in truth, all dwell.

The riddle that pervades our lives
Cuts deeper than the surgeon's knife
Dissecting our realities
Upon an ever-changing sea
Of hopes and dreams that hurl us
Eventually to bones and dust.

I sing your song as you sang mine
Like all of us will sing in time
The game we play is one sad dance
A walking breathing zombie trance
That when we wake leaves us in tears
Smiling sweetly through our fears.

I know the dream you dreamt was strange
And though some think your words deranged
They know not how unreal their lives
As spent with ghosts, husbands and wives
They know not of the maya weaved
And how we all have been deceived
We androids, clothed as human beings!