In a world based on love and friendship,

I look outward to find these enticing sips,

The windy oasis dances outside the static of my mind,

But within me grows a barren desert that leaves me with snides,

A blight that eats more on my inside,

A disease that greets my heart with an allowance of reside,

A puncture that shatters my sense of self,

My character now only a people painted mural that hangs off a shelf,

A sly companion that occupies my heart space,

A deafening watchtower that compares me in a snail's pace,

A picturesque inkling that draws around me,

Visible in the corridors of mind, you see,

A dull crater lays down in its wake,

Leaving a person with a tasteless cake,

The pretty ones stand to their sides,

Piercing me...