#ShapingIdentities

Years passed without love,
loneliness the eternal companion
followed me and brooked
no mercy in its magnificence.

Music accompanied my mood
when I found the language
of heavy metal through the Gods
know as Metallica and their desolation
song "Fade to Black." I never looked
back to the world without tainted
glasses to know I belonged to outsiders.

Thrash awakened my love of metal,
even as I wandered...