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When the Facade Falls
In nightmares they solely deal,
When the soul is stripped of pomp
And the conscience of the corporeal,
On a leaden-footed romp
Through fields of lavender remembrance,
Trampeling blue the treasured
And muddying purest essence.
Their subhuman howls prove measured
To best rip the fabric of the mind
In irrepairable scars and tatters--
They're gaining, they're behind!--
Sanity falls away and shatters
To the fear! The fight, the fate
The walls of soundless sound and
sightless sight and no before no
after no ground no sky no nothing
but the fear! The crushing weight
of certainty of the uncertain and
horror at the heels--
Reality reassembles in white rooms.
Black splotches under the eyelids.
Every spot a memory of every night
Every past refuses to be forgotten.
Reminder that no healing daylight
Can reconcile the ghosts
Beneath the consciousness.
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It's just a poem I wrote about traumatic memories that won't leave. I purposefully didn't say exactly what the memories were, because I feel it allows people to interpret it however they choose.