Offer another a pallet of surcease and forgetfulness

Beyond the opium dreams smoked in a pipe

Watch those well-meaning offers evaporate

In a welter of antagonism and recrimination

Twenty years of friendship going up in flames

Like a ship on fire...

Sinking fast...into the sea of what-has-been

Never to see the rise of what-will-be

Because of an unutterable tragedy

One can't move past what has happened

It remains frozen in a singular moment

Breaking the bonds that have lasted so long

Broken...like the illusions of truth and life

Free, finally to drift to another form of being...

Or not.

Repaired

arriving soon.