Take away something real, fiction Hold it in your arms, metaphysical Friction, Oh, hyper-monitor diction to Take hold of nonexistent, nonsensical Non-fiction; How it slips from fingers Ever distant, moving yet arthritic; much so, This life fades, Drowning in indifference In the future not far; Traces fill the spaces That hold your heart back as if paralytic. Become resistant, To feel alive in life here. If only to replay the best yesterdays; When tomorrow is clean-slated fate, Today is an oil smudged rainy sidewalk, There is a Specter, an owl on a high pole; In the light of fluorescence a ****** there, Eyes glow; what does the wise one know?