Every retreat’s become your lair

Every hideaway your fortress

Omnipresent as air

Yet you’re blowing remorseless

Dodging your influence

I’ve held my breath blue

How gross to gasp for smog like you

Your echo rebounds

From each perceived crystal

My cavernous world

Too bare to absorb it

Look over my shoulder

To find your initials

Engraved in each moment,

And smearing my portrait

My eyes worn from watching you

Trailing behind

I’d flee if your shadow weren’t melded with mine