Effigy...

I grope
In the dead of darkness
For the voice
I once sought
To be my own...
Hazy silhouettes
From several lives ago
Dance into the vanishing horizon
As a forlorn melody
Plays to the spasms
Of my singeing soul....
You stand there smiling
Drenched in the rain
While I burn noiselessly
Amidst the floating remains...
I can't be sure
If it's the curtain of dawn
Or the beckon of dusk
For time has long given up
On the thought of me....
As I continue to stare
Into a reality
Sewn together
From handpicked illusions....
And I draw
With the kiss of my finger
Wispy outlines
Of your effigy....