Hereditary fame
Condemned by blood
By given name
To live your life
In fairytales
Not your own

Heaven descended
Covering the world
In purest white
Yet all I feel
Is cold

A greater love
Brings deeper sorrow

You waste your time
Checking up on me
I only respond
To genuine
Sincerity

Expressionless
Her gaze
Locked and radiant
Overflows
With words
Unsaid

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