a bitter
internment
dying in
shuttered flashes
freeze frame
fatalities in
flaccid repose
sputtering out
at the ass end
of eternity

they carefully
cultivate an
incorrect image
a totem
disregarding
truth in their
assumed ownership
lashing out
when reality is
an ill match for
fevered fantasy

ashes drift
over the shattered
scattered remains
a bitter internment
for feeble fireflies
flashing out of focus
dying just off frame