I stand before you with hopeful eyes Your edges are glistening, sharp as knives A familiar image nostalgia contorted Eyes empty pools, black, distorted Duality is opposites on the same thread Scales balanced, joy the bedfellow of dread A siphon of energy a thief in the night But is it really stealing, if I don’t fight I burned bright as the sun, a dying supernova Your handiwork imploded my false persona Shockwaves echo even now that you’re gone Madonna’s mask erased, no longer a fawn Awakened dark mistress arose from the flames A fool turned Empress no longer ashamed You mirrored shadows, reflected my wounds A torch of destruction annihilated this tomb Towers crumbled foundations upended The star in a vacuum, broken, rejected