XV
“Remember your name
For you and the world
Are not one and the same…”
In a city of absent emotion
I woke up
Nameless
Shackled
To the mutilated Earth
Emptiness exudes
From memories of flying high
Ignoring the chains of possibility
Back then
When I had a name.
Was it all a dream?
Shadows scream
In the void of my mind.
I need a drink.
The nearest bar offers
Alcohol soaked lapdances
I accept
Numb entertainment
Growing number
As hips thrust into empty air
Empty glasses around my chair
Now I am nothing
But a blank slate for someone else to transform
Cheap, soulless art
Hung in a dim office hallway
Background noise
Sinking further
Into senseless oblivion…
A Life in Poems 