Uncorked and riled
I rave into exhaustion
Depleting all words
And forgoing the luxury of breath

On and on
Is the maddening drag
The uprooting of silence
The flooding of solitude

Rattled thoughts
Leave coherence bloodied
Mangled, ragged
And swallowed by disarray

Until mountainous veins
Rise proudly from my skin
A showcasing of contempt
The distress that tussles within

Defiantly
This living scourge festers
A thriving menace
In the heaps
Of fragmented reason

From the shards
They conquer and command
Siphoning off
The remedy I retain

It is all for not
In this crude unraveling
The undoing I’ve earned
With the carelessness I’ve spun

Remorse
Prevails
To reign forever more