Muted familiar fragrances
Distant fleeting recollections
This beauty I had come to know

Shatters
Then recedes
In brittle air


Aimless vagrant waters
Draw me out with the tide

Gasping, slowing descending
Screaming toward the shore


Painful persistent images
Disrupts my sleep
Intrudes in dreams

Faint droning echoes within the walls
Veiled reminders
Of regret time will hold