Soot from a heart long burning; burnt out
Mixes with mud from thundering storm clouds
Into the cracked crystal's splinters, drips infectious liquids
Sliding through grooves, chiseled by miserable sickness

Etched from countless complaints, anger galore, the vacant embrace
I'm matched only by being here more, so I patiently wait
As if blocking the sun thin with deliberate hands
My cheeks remain dry skin - swimming in dark sand

A prisoner of drifting silk bars, with scissors of reason
She stays shackled to nothing, remains without freedom

I step into its essence, with conviction-less sparkle,
My presence, my sickness; a prism of charcoal

Creeping inside the missing shimmering light
My face plays behind lies, greed, distance...delight

A rainbow with layers of the same color of nowhere
Droops over cobwebs, paired chairs of rocking despair
We stumble as lovers within forests stripped bare

And as we dance underneath
We bleed through our teeth
My chin glistens with comfort, hers...disbelief

Devoid of glowing, of glee - no apologies - emptiness inside exists only in me.