2012-06-14

Fragile


The feeling of fragility

is the most useless feeling; 
it drifts and wanders like a 
wayward echo in a hollow heart 
beating against the world.
It collapses like a candle,
folding into itself in the same way
a starving man would eat himself alive
and nothing would be accomplished.

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