a silent sombre symphony...
a piece of shattered dream...
a wish gone unfulfilled...
a whole life to redeem...

a visiting-vanishing hope...
a tactfully repressed story...
a cherished memory so dear...
a past of wounded glory...

a crumbling sand castle...
a melting drop of snow...
a directionless wind...
a colourless rainbow...

an old unfinished conversation...
a listless solemn thought...
a confused speck of truth...
an invincible dirty blot...

a happy impromptu journey...
a relentless haunting pause...
an unstirred-undying passion...
an unknown abandoned cause...

these fragments of my soul...
these splinters in my heart...
pierce me through and through,
tearing me apart...