This meandering life.
Twisting coiling avoiding
collisions with distress.
Avoiding confrontations with reality.
Meeting it regardless
time and time again.
Escaping into pages,
into words and pictures.
Alternative lives lived
freely but without meaning.
Watch illusions
shattered by hard truths.
No relief to be found
from lifelong struggle.
Hardships defined comparatively
in the eyes of judgement.
Emotion, defeat
invalidation by worse than.
Retreat deeper,
withdraw from judgement.
Withhold explanation
of present ailments.
Share not the loneliness
as it affects none but self.
Melodrama pervades,
polluting purity with shared likeness.
Insecurity bestowed
by the snare of doubt.
Silence now,
lest unoriginal trite burgeon.
The valve closes once more,
sealing that which once soared
within. |