As my lips carry the mask of sin- <br />Ink stained, locked within a lying grin; <br />Cloudy eyes stumbling in a grey haze, <br />Naming you, my forgotten Hendrix days. <br /> <br />Sending smoke signals pleading for release- <br />Lost in a cautionary tale for inner peace, <br />Dancing in circles of insanity shaded blue; <br />No words spoken between us ring true. <br /> <br />Melting like sugar under tortured rain- <br />Words cut me harder than cheap cocaine; <br />Covered in dying roses and living thorns, <br />A heart of blown glass still mourns. <br /> <br />Hurt never shows yet the pain glows- <br />Drunk by the memory of our final repose; <br />I find my way back to you and me, <br />Before I was paraded alone for all to see.<br /><br />Robin Bennett<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-m-melting/
