To Be Remembered

I always look to the future anxiously hoping for something greater, yet my present sits idly, waiting for me to recognize it's relevance.

Marble slabs lay replacing bricks

A troubled artist loses grip

Reveled in a dangerous mind

Battling against wicked crimes

Visions flash in a nocturnal sleep

Secret phantoms’ lies to keep

Fragrant passions fill the air

Perceptions tower with debonair

Wildly fleeing pangs of guilt

Shame retires anguished hell

Far fetched remiss and vile blanks

Thrown expression, mysterious saints

Evil wicked growing pain

Disillusion ghosts to have slain

By the break of candlelight

In fleeting wings they take their flight

Simplest damsel in distress

Monstrous desire set to rest

Partake in gory sacrifice

To write the message of your life

Admired, finally you stand

Was all the pain worth all the grand?

Don’t trouble how time can’t be turned

Through these failures you have learned

Wildly your rights prevail

Mistaken, shaken, unaware

Foundations crumble within your realm

A matter wholly lost and failed

Disgraced you are, at home you lay

Wallowing bottles of chardonnay

Transcend this path and fade to black

A truth too real, one which you lack

When stories tell of pain and loss

Your name is said and read by all

You lose your life and fall away

Not forgotten to this day

Maybe you did succeed after all

A genius with a cataclysmic fall

Alas you lost and shattered your life

But in your death you lived despite