Burnt Out Dreams

Burnt Out Dreams, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

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a poet
is a dreamer
living in a world
on borrowed
pain
he has to
return
it to the
moneylender
once again
burnt
out dreams
burnt out heart
burnt out brain

though on his grave
reads an epitaph

"fire, my friend, either cleanses the soul or burns it down completely... our choice..."

only memories
night long vigil
to retain
such
is pain
of a dreamer
dreaming
dreams
into a gutter
of nothingness
as they drain
souls bound
by karmic chain
imagined
guilt
imagined
betrayal
on the soul
of misery
why complain
what is hers
belongs to her
what was mine
i cant obtain
depleted dreams
deleted drams
dont come again
burnout dreams
coming
home to roost
in a birds brain
somethings
volatile
combustible
inflammable
on the fleshy soul
not humane
but the poets mind
will sustain
one sided love
one sided agony
in a one way lane
some marriages
are made in heaven
some dreamed
on the minds
membrane
every day
a poet dies
crushed
under
the wheels
of times train
now go back
to sleep
says his
altar ego
you have
nothing
more to gain