eyes open to this tempestuous day
the moon has faded but the sun never came.
A fire i illume
but no heat i can feel.
I ponder the reason
my breath coming short,
lightheaded, the pain i feel is real.

broken now,
torn by these depending decisions
of life and dust,
they're rendering illusion,
a hope now
my only foreverence.

call me dismay
taunt me, my despair
there's nothing left
my inner sanctuary has burned,
and in a seasons resolution
i wish for a castle in the air.

now in the wake of the shadow
i see that not nothing
but the nothingness is me,
and contemplating myself,
i sit under a weeping tree
the rain is falling
my tears are lost,
lost in life and dust.