Skin beneath my fingers peeling Rats stampeding in the ceiling Storm outside is fiercely brewing Food for thought my brain is chewing Never has its fill, but will Continue to ingest the pill Should it provide the answer Or a ceasing the increasingly Detest the next romancer To be smitten by a pittance Of my paucity A pauper playing prince And salting old wounds of viscosity Virulent vitriolic Villain vision Brashly crash and burning into My audacity decision To abandon everything The world demands that I must be And write my destiny anew By being what I'd rather be