an internal
struggle to not
cast out these
dreamscatter
odes to gleaming
heartshatter as
blood bubbles
well from these
crimson lips

a fool hiding
from himself
ignoring the calls
ollieollieoxenfree
scraping sediment
from his long
seasunken brain
running raisined
fingers against
the bleached coral
where hope once
frolicked in
faerie lights
refracted off the
milky eyed stare
of all the corpses
who gave their all
in pursuit of
elusive delusions

blowing kisses
which gurgle up
through the cold
brackish waters
scattershot soliloquies
lost in the whitecaps
waving in lunar dismay
a cacophonic chorus
of dire damnations