Asleep at the pen The world outside is a chorus of muffled voices Throwing pebbles at my window Unconscious mind swerving in and out of lines Awake dream detective scribbles drunken ink confessions Sleep deprived glutton for depression A caution tape commotion for, My broken heart bravado Pill, Water, Swish, Swallow Simple sorrows warp me back to all my past tomorrows Humans replaced by hollowed husks Staring and sipping emptiness from a chalice Delusional desperado, mounted on malice His six-gun guitar strums, Self-inflicted bullet wounds