alone in a crowded room
transfixed on the ghost of you
lovely apparitions bloom
fading swiftly out of view

dancing on an empty floor
wishing you could hold my hand
as I’m captured evermore
by a rhythm I can’t stand

stumbling through a narrow hall
shadows leering on each side
shift as you and so I fall
numbly choking on my pride

laying in a lonely bed
smothered by the looming past
dancing dreams within my head
taunting as they never last

waking in a sober haze
disbelieving my own eyes
as your ever toxic gaze
is the birth of my demise

-Barbie