telephoneus alternative...so here it is...

"i say with those you love best, you live in foulest shame unconsiously and do not see where you are in calamity."

-Teiresias, "Oedipus the King"

i saw your shadow in the mirror tonight-
heated escape of gray Western light-
no words can go where you no longer hear
free in glass jungles runs the wide Stare.
i cannot reason with your cowardice Hell-
declaration of bright folly, crystal star fell-
denying all love- crushed each struggling spark
for a dream of lfantasy in endless ink'd dark.
roots so deeply knotted hurt as they break-
and rip all of those that stand in their wake.
till silence gives self destruction credence
an intimacy of death blind to consequence-
despite this late hour i refuse to find sleep
in the echoes of laughter sold that cheap
i've seen it before, the image will come
an end of day- dawn's glare disparingly won-
the heart is dangerous when so powerfully rent
and leads you too silently by the purest intent
indulging in vulgarity to numb lonely pain
till the wound untreated leaves a permament stain.
claim glorious inspiration, declare Beauty's cause
madness ends too soon opens wide to what was.
to the hangover that can last for endless years-
and bring you full circle in ripples of tears.
futile secrets, illogical stories, and twisted lies
can never lessen the honored standing in ephemeral eyes
and i will sit in this place tired, cool, but so achingly real
because there can be no shame that love cannot heal...