Gagging on fire burning inside the soul
The misery so overwhelming and out of control...

Today I can write of deception.
Write for example, "An ocean of tears...

The illusion of a future
Subliminally etched into our torpid minds...

Day broke in a mirror
All of time confined in glass...

Sweet chianti -- bittersweet
My friend; enemy of consolation...

Oh, great world, majestic thou may seem
To hold glory from land to sea...

Pain is an acid that eats through your body
Starting in your brain and confined under your...

Adorn the black painted mountain
Suppressed of intensity...

My head screams and steams, like a kettle full of...
My fists clinch and my mind runs frantically free...

Stars.
They look upon me from the best seats in this...

When you look at me, why can't you see the tears?
Perhaps it is because they are lucid, so invisible...

Thief of the midnight sky
Robbing the dreams of those who wished upon...