Empty Barrels

Is most of your life spent alone in the dark Hiding from rainbows in colorless spite The sun waits a mistress the evening a whore That paid by the hour exposes your blight Professing in earnest those things you don’t know Whose pontification a mask that conceals What others see clearly fate not to deceive Delusion and bluster —your folly revealed (Dreamsleep: August, 2023)