Timid Man

.   The ridiculed mind of a man stands between two lines, To stagger in thought, Never to vine. My slivered emotions, As they wither away, are left to wallow in past decay. To dig at a splinter under the skin, scratching the surface of catered sin. Wish I was too dead to care, Without pain, And no despair. To fear without trembling, To see without eyes, To feel without touching, To have reasons without why's. To breathe without taking, To cry without tears, To suffer without aching, To pass days without years. To live without dying, To fly without wings, To search without finding, To flow without streams. To end without starting, To never hale a dream, To protect without guarding, Nothing's what it seems. There's a look in his timid eyes, Too afraid to live, Too afraid to die. You're betrayed by self illusion, You live in thoughts of demise, To be suffocated by deception, And blinded by its disguise.