In the lingering void that is this expressionless existence I walk pounding down the sharpness that is the stinging lash of memory Filled with bitter intensity of Regret. remorse other tantamount fears Shouting in the stillness Who am I now? Where do I begin to change? What do I do now? Can I let go? Echoing the madness of self doubt Boiling to surface and rim the confines of thought Trickling abundantly the inner corrosion Ahead in the silent drifting twilight there stood a shadowed figure translucent an after thought within my being A remnant to something that was once strong Faded but not lost Like a fine layer of dust guilt finally lifts its sticky clingy tendrils Away from the constricting spasmic leeching it once held to my soul And I step freely from this endless circular prison Into myself I become once more