excellent pacing and craft; a subtle sense of darkness, not the clumsy half-arsed emo shit. It contains and frames a deepness, a real feeling of uncertainty, of lost hope and despair. My personal favourite stanze was: "But stationed time always brings That cold and dark mirror Dragging with it sober reflection That is oft so unwelcome" ...you put the word 'dark' in front of something it gives it such a tantalising seductive quality for me - hehe! I'd say the use of the word 'oft' is a touch archaic for me; but this doesn't feel like it's trying to be a 'contemporary' poem in the sense of the here-and-now, but has a timeless detached placement; hense the cold but enveloping sense of the quality narration.....good one

Yup time is brutal...I love the last stanza.

magnificent write good sir. *salutes* Time is cruel to us all.