Somewhere between depression and ire

Awash upon the shores of your refusal

Repelled and rejected

Jaded and dejected.

How to appease the typhoon

The stifled emotions raging

Icicles of your memory

Shards of my life

Discarded from your grasp.

Pour them back into the fire

Melt them down and recreate them

A whole from pieces.

I will stand again.

How often can you mend the broken?

How seldom the glimpses of why I remain

Bow your head

Get on your knees

Declare fealty to the pain of reality.

Shrink away from the illusion

The illusion of passion

The illusion of satisfaction

The illusion of success

The illusion of confidence.

Masks parading as drugs

Hallucinations clenching my heart

Only to crash around me in desperate agony

Waves of reflections

Images of reality

Slide shows of distant memories

Translucent mirages

Questioning my surroundings

Sorrowful symphonies

Instruments destroyed

Sterilized emptiness

Dead silence

Dead