Written Destiny


  Happiness and I are not destined to each other.
  Sobriety is not a state I am destined to ever experience.
  The drunkenness of daydreams and wishful thinking,
          the lure of continuously metamorphosing illusions
                appear to me more and more as the veritable embodiments of my fate.
  This is a trap from which there can be no escape.
  Not a single moment of sobriety can ever be interjected
               into that ceaseless flow of suicidal thoughts that comprise my life-story,
                                                                                                        pure
                                                                                                              and simple.
  Not a single moment of warmth.
  Not a single instant of calm.
  Not a single ray of light.
  Forever cold and frantic,
                         this is my fate, it seems,

                                                  my written destiny.



March 18, 1997