On the Death of a Friend by Murder





			Guilt ridden self
			Suppressing emotion
			Allows only a momentary
			Blitzgrieg of reality
			Then dons a perfect social mask.
			
			Too   easily I accept
			This reality
			Only to be shocked
			A moment later
			Realization of perditious illusion
			
			Nature reveals
			Subtle workings
			Persuading bitter memories
			Into numbing oblivion
			Recalled periodically
			
			Come Pathos
			Reap your vengeance
			Rape my soul
			Bitter is the emotion
			That stays hidden