Time leashes
All whose
Best features
Show in reflections.

Originality —
The art of obscuring
The ways in which
You shuffled and twisted
The known
To make it
Seem new.

Forbidden fruit
Withers.

Her moods, unpredictable.
My hunger, insatiable —
Our love built
On foundations, unstable.

Absence
Breeds
Apathy.

Respect is
Making the effort
To understand
Another's anger.
I learned
All about yours
But doubt
You'll ever
Take the time
To know mine.

Her happiness,
Even fragile and tainted —
Rainbows set against
Black skies —
Could set my soul alight.

Victorious I fall —
What healed my heart
Seared my soul.

Hate stains,
Dark marks on our society.
Ignored, they'll permeate.
Stop the rot —
Eradicate.

Unaware the
Truth behind his ravings,
None but the one
Branded a madman
Saw beauty
Mortal words
Fail to express.

Pause and reflect
On what it is
You hunt —
Would it even
Still your hunger?

What's left
Is more stitches
Than heart.

No kindness,
No support —
Condemned by my own.
Who are we if not united?

Ignoring
The infected finger.
Neatly bandaged,
Yet throbbing —
Still holding
The splinter.

Where can we hide
When even in dreams
The pain
Finds us?

Identity forsaken —
In the new world
The norm
Is uniformity.

She is the single
Dark cloud
Standing out against
A clear night's sky —
Melancholy incarnate,
Gazing down
With eyes of starlight.

It is okay
That your can't —
Just don't promise.

Life is motion,
Success a direction —
Not a destination.
You may advance
But can't ever
Arrive.

Unshared happiness
Lessens,
Unshared fears
Multiply.