see me, here, a man chiseled by fate,

with cold winds for companions

I drift on the edge of time

dressed in ceremonial ruin.

the path I walked in life

was paved in screams and tears.

for my sins I perished

condemned to fester

in this empty cage

disintegrating into filth

ravaged by guilt

entombed in dreams of those I wronged.

I am picked apart by the scavengers of my own mind

even the escape of madness denied to me.