Crumbled accomplishments
The likes this world
Will see no more
Dust shimmering
In dim winter's light
Muted fragrances
Of summers past
Drifting by
One last time
Onwards march
Sing along
The steady
Songs of change

Thoughtless courtesy
Misplaced generosity
Unearned
Underserved
Will never last

To end nightmares
One must first
Awaken

Boundaries bent
Past breaking
Still not considered
Stretched enough
What's measured
By another's standards
May never suffice

Voice discomfort
Nor complaint
When words alone
Can't change
What action may

Seen, unwatched
Felt, untouched
Lived, unconscious

Fear
Breeds
Violence

Try
Fail
Repeat
While you can
For in death
There are
No second chances

Would you like
What you'd see
Granted a chance
To take a look at yourself
Through the eyes
Of the enemy?

Retrieving stones
Thrown into
The lake of consequences
Will not stop
The ripples
Betraying
What you've done

From abandoned paths
Where choices passed
A zillion different drafts of me
Condemned to realms of
Could have
Should have
Might have been
Shake their heads
At who I am
With every new mistake
That joins them

Cuteness makes forget
Even innocence
Ends

Rituals of desolation
Flaunting what
But few may find
Love glorified
Sugar-coated
Placed on sale
At discount prices

Empty dreams
The heart adheres
To call nor wish
Will nor time
Loneliness
Does not get better
Yearning for
An absent Valentine

Each swallow
My body screams
Stop
My hunger
Cares not
Demanding more
And weakly
I follow

Why can't I leave
This emotional wasteland
Reduced to a beggar
Surviving on discarded
Scraps of your love

Where do these thoughts
Not mine
Keep coming from
Whose lie
Am I living

Dark rainbows
Dreams mundane
Truths painted
Black or white
Life a colorless
Gradient of gray

Some days
You've got too much to say
To fit inside
My attention span

Love beyond beauty
Purpose beyond duty
Sight beyond seeing
Life beyond breathing
Such miracles await
Beyond awakening