Simplistic betrayals captured on film,
burned into the retina of a camera’s eye,
the missing similarities of a chosen mask,
figures sketched while fingers poke and prod,
a flamboyant grin,
suffocating a unhappy soul,
twisted in the midnight of time that didn’t call its name,
while the darkness struggles,
and I call you,
wondering where you were while I was falling,
while I was disappearing,
wondering when,
wondering why….