At a time when I needed a life preserver

you threw me an anchor

the weight of it pulled me down

sowed the seeds of my self-destruction

crumbled the facade of my perfect life

and a thousand other clichés

tearing my reality apart piece by piece

you committed the ultimate faux pas --

drove me to the brink of reality

I've drifted back in my foggy haze

to something resembling my normal life

but it is haunted daily by the ghost of you

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Ninian

Copyright December 3, 1997