You,
In benign blessing smiled down on me,
Gave me all I crave.
Then came with evil grin
Slashed and rendered all you gave.

You
Laid waste to life and mocked the dream,
Laughed at fidelity.
Drawn and quartered
In gray pallor of reality.

You
Set me high upon a silver cloud.
Lining blocked the smog
Until, illusion revealed,
The cloud was endless fog.

I fell.
My deafening screams
Resounded in the echo of your jest.
A pervasive howling
In the deepening mist.