I am vapid
Bombastic
Desire
Wishing for depth
On an empty canvas

I am specious awareness
I am explosive emptiness

I am invalid
Invalidated
Left to crawl
On rugged pavement

I am a zephyr
Collapsed
In a zeppelin

Attached
To the ground, and
Expanding
Without rising

I am evidence
Of evanescence
Wishing to swallow
Whole
The world’s incandescence
But only discarding fragments
Of immortal light