Tainting

Dreams like water
Bursting from a
Fractured sphere
Bleed out into reality.

Rampant fancies
Ruin fantasy —
Escaping mind,
Upending life.

What never was,
What cannot be,
Inescapably surrounds me.

Too tempted —
Weak,
To turn from
This poisonous shadow,
Tainting
Everything I see.

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