imitating life

much of what's behind lies buried within the mind revised or maligned boiling down this life using memory as knife won't halt inner strife trying to avoid staring straight into the void ego was destroyed filling empty lines outside truth's murky confines too soon undermines join the collective following each directive brought lost perspective nature will arrange the many phases of change subtle, stark or strange from one all did come light, motion and rising sun existence begun thoughts float up like clouds above ambivalent crowds endlessness enshrouds