I was staggering helplessly through the darkened
night, blindsided, misguided, colliding with flaming
asteroids, feeling unsound, drowned, inadequate,
desolate, my swollen skin incessantly bleeding
broken metaphors, slashed similes, and freezing
diction with no rhythm.  My body was screaming,
seeking a missing dream, not knowing how to survive
or thrive on this wild ride, confined, divided, drifting
deep down below bottomless depths.  I never thought
I could feel so alone, maxed out, ice-cold, shouldering
the damaging storms of unglorified depictions, my breath
periodically fluctuating, breaking, slipping away
into lifeless labyrinths where the darkness haunted me
with its terrifying illusions.