Timeline 

Mask the feeling

Drenched in pain,

Suffocate the rising

Angst –

Laced with

Blood dripping from

Reason –

Which

Beguiles one’s thoughts.

Smile sweetly through

The burning –

Ache

Which fragments the senses

In its searing wake.

Take refuge in torrid quietude

Numbed with grief,

Troubled moments –

Garbled

With memories

Which unsettle

And wrench -

Bygone eras invade and

Delude,

Upset and poison

With their everlasting stench.

PIA