Impassioned Decline

At the shrinkage of the page Expressions plead for length Inhibition imposed on lines by columns Words already accustom to scarcity Pieces find focus in incompletion. Thoughts flutter toward temples Ready to leave prints on a canvass Diving into ink, drying before depart Leaving smudges with hints of beauty Never a portrait to hold high. Love found constancy through infatuation Appearing in every attempt at honing Shadowed by past excellence's remembrance Exposing an unguarded diminishment Appeased by external validation. Truth distilled through repetitition Emotional trials shared in nude No longer enigmatic, too foreign to own Complacent with the ease of flow Mentally stalled by comfort's opposition to growth. Time contriving towards finality Longevity could not be imagined A burnout, seen as a destination Pieces threaded, undoing progress Passion puckered away by a task, too daunting.