Cognition Contrition

Things are looking up,
according to helium;
air hasn't gotten heavier
the mind collects dust
and waits for its paycheck.

Willed to power but born
in towers, on top, at maximum--
spelled like it sounds:
I am bound
to be fateful.

Spurned, blamed, shamed:
the throne is spiky on the outside.
Don't fall off.

Biases demand to know
that the beholder's eyes 
have only good things to say.