I fell down into a field of flowers today I found that the petals of the rose looked more like the rotting limbs of the putrid dead to me
The buds of spring reminded me of hope that would never bloom even the fresh green grass took on a hue of despair
I flew from the nest at eighteen with resolve to never come back I am thirty-four now, and after too many women too many heartaches too many years as a soldier I have collapsed back into that nest my life has rebounded full circle I am a failure