a scent of rejection that fails to comfort and all your lies lay crippled below weakness was never meant this way why should I wear this mask of regret once adored melancholy now obsessed with misery delusive affection collapsing within corrupted emotions reduced to defeat still there is judgment in your intentions would you carry the burden of shame I am freezing I am falling down perceiving the absence increasing in me the sky is even more vacant tonight a sullen scene of farewell dissolving who will uncover the shroud of distress