Days blur together

Fading in obscurity

Nightmare of my mind

Tortured by reminiscence

Haunted by bittersweet memories

As acid rain corrodes and drains

Rendered engravings impose woeful shame

Gracefully fierce with a tone that abrades

Lacing a trait that sinks and fades

Chasmal and eternal

They dispel vitality

Compulsive and incessant

They deprave morality

Like a stigma burned into the hide of an animal

They exemplify enslavement to an infallible malefactor

As I drift withdrawn from a state of solace

A blanket of haze is sought with haste

Beneath an ephemeral shelter of crimson cirrus

I am transfixed by grace until impaled and displaced