Halloween

Blind television stare

Completely consummate

Mindless trance broken

Escape from the escape

Back to face reality

Costumes covering faces

Hiding surface only

Revealing the depths

Fantasies uncovered

Symbolized expression

No costume to pretend

No sublimating mad desire

Mask removed, face revealed

Back behind the front

Below the cover story

Painful truth arises

Believing my own disguise

Fooling myself again

Justifying the means

To my own ends

Catalyst creation intimates

Full moon behind the clouds

From the bottomless abyss

Lone echo reaches upward

Finding the other side