a delusory warm sunlight glow breaks in cracks
through the curtains in my room
energy leaves my body
as my breath is breathed into aching lungs

a haze encircles the breeze through the window
mirthless scenes begin, touching deep
dragging me down under
a happiness once felt, only brief

unbending alliances drift into my head
loss reverberates in droves
savage in it's descent
compassion destroying my senses

wild ashen gasps are delivered into the air
worn out from the drain
of surrendering to the senses
dissipation blurring the cost

as the bodies pass by, living in prism-ed hours
relief now only contained in my four walls
eyes close to balm
in the downcast chill that night's gift brings