To witness a ritual that takes
only seconds,
over and over again
until perception is changed in one;
maybe the other-
can be like hell,
eating at you and making you ill
day by day,
as valves burst thoroughly
ripping apart and through
your very breathing chest-piece.

And it's taken all this to realize
ive been seeing the wrong colors,
using the wrong crayons
and coloring too neatly within given lines
in this place of perfection in
my eyes.