a complex equation

as I sat in that space

everything designed to break me

shattered my ego

as I saw how unfree I was

all along

what song was it I heard

the distant refrain of

there is a loneliness here

an emptiness so utter

it swallows up all feeling

and that is why

my entire being nearly dissolves

in these floods of tears

don’t talk to me of things

that make no sense

what in this room is living

but our hearts beating

and our lungs breathing

where has life gone

i only cry as my heart

feels it receeding

what was it all for if in the end

all it comes to is this

some figures on a page

calculated together

that in the end

only form

a complex equation

of heartbreak