Frittered potency
Lurks beneath each page
Hollowing, every fallen verse
I’ve cruelly sent to wither

Flat notions wail
Yet their cries never carry
Unheeded and useless
Eternally, fragile and impotent

My greatest crime
Of wasted vigor
Lingers in full display

The glaring fable
Atop the pillar
For kindred eyes to reap

Within seclusion
I strive and strive
Yet lifeless yearnings
Dawn

And so torment sprawls
Into maniacal wrath
A slow enveloping
Of the honest
Treasures I keep