Again I Follow Suit

Extract these thoughts from my head

withdraw these feelings from my heart

planned answers always followed with more questions

've seen this landscape before try

not to look but I am drawn if I could

only ignore it you didn't slip through

my fingers I just spread them apart a

clove of smoke that starts out strong

and fades away before too long expectations

set so high too far to see with squinting

eyes how honorable were the attempts to

reach the goal I could never come close

to cleanse me of this unbearable reality

cure the sickness that's so much a part

of me cathedrals standing tall to

demonstrate denial as infection ever

grows the victims only smile the beginning

of the end in the shell of defiance the

truth is safely hidden the definition of

reliance a cancer of meager beginnings the

product of its surroundings the destruction

of natural purity a virus foreign to empathy