i've spent a lifetime carving out my fate things i like, things i hate my very nature is to criticize and cut myself down to size on the cusp of compromise to living hell i slipped and fell i'm in the corner licking my wounds love's come and gone all too soon looking back upon my life as such and the remedies, they cost too much such a frail and fragile place this egg and shell upon my face fueled by desire wind as to fire flame of the uninspired