Can you hear it shatter?
As the stars burn in my mind
Blurring worlds as words seek
only to never escape the wordless pantomime

Lurid and deserved
are sins that trickle through my lies

Open and accepted
with no depth so to speak

it is the flayed and wicked yearns
of heart wrought with peril
how it calls to me

with reckless abandon do I walk
these rivets tortured churn
of the burden of the weak and wondering
how my heart doth yearn

See me in glimmers and shadows
burning my soul to beacon
those that would come to vie
only come to wither and die

the burning of the stars
that still linger in my mind
leaving ashes and echoes to liter my head

what has happened?
what has become?
of the man I am
the man I once was

that grew to love
that sought to hold
the heart that was
that never ran cold.