Days gone, eyes drifting
blaze on, mind shifting
ways one hide slipping
dropping pills
pain, lies, splitting ties
same old miles hitching
high-drifting, strained eyes itching
twitching pain stained old in the rain
tolls in the strange though
grief told through strange notes
tamed to flow the way his hate wrote
road to his taint, bloat, sate to his wained oaths
shame set the ways his days rose
in this life of a greyed rose
plainfold is the path of his paved woes
ache prostrates his fate so
set callous coloured brain wrote
words barely sifted sane
and through barred pain
now slips his strained throat.