Staring With my Good Eye Closed (Acrostic)
 
People you’d rather turn back to strangers
a solid embarrassment so tangible you could crush it
in the violent agony of silence 
nullified eyes of casting glare 
frivolously impersonal thoughts left stretched and stained 
unsuccessful clarity of focus yet again
live in your parting vision of what could have been
lifted in your darkness of grey misery 
young thriving inconspicuous disgrace 
 
all void of lively energy 
blindness piercing reality 
sovereign king of his nothingness 
out to reap his claim 
leave those you’d rather know 
utilize what you have become 
the insight in the fumes of a burning socket
endure a life best lived alone