Cardboard illusions
Consume my ravaged mind
Wandering among the ragged cutouts
Of hollow and desolate grey

My eyes strain to feel
And quiver, painfully discouraged
In the hushed company
Of vast melancholy
Robed in sheets of sprawling silence

The reach
Of frozen illusions
Expand in the sluggish passing of weeks

Without expression
They toll in bliss
Peacefully void
Vacant for all time