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Shimmering lights reflected

On a sheet of anguish, delight,

And emptiness distract the soul’s

Vision of a new tomorrow, one

Absorbed in hue of a warm red and gold

Sunset overlooking a placid stream of thought,

Only to be shattered once again by the annoyance

Of the cerebral vacuum held inside the candle’s

Spherical glow, attracting insects to feed on

The brain’s cavity, chewing on synaptic clefts as if

The strands of dendrites were leaves of grass,

Green with nutrients, only now, brittle and cold

As the dawn of the new era of modernity

Takes hold of the fear of nothingness: and the

Prismatic rays are now beams through a window

Of a vacant building, swarming with ghosts hidden

For all time behind the glass of a padded room.