there will be inundation

 

as i lay stricken
  -or-
% clocked

 

 

back again
      shady and ashen

 

started remembering
  a lie,
 a beginning

 

swooned over the past

 

ate at the bar
      alone again

 

stood in lime,

  wanton existence,
 silent longing

 

it all seeps back in