Raging Reality Love lost cannot find the freshness it once knew. Haunting past memories absorb sanity. Spellbound, last illusions, and joys say, “adieu.” Flickering dreams blanket deaths black reality. Haunting past memories absorb sanity. Reality grips hate’s raging encasement. Flickering dreams blanket deaths black reality. Final mockery proclaims a new standard. Haunting past memories absorb sanity. Spellbound, last illusions, and joys say, “adieu.” Flickering dreams blanket deaths black reality. Love lost cannot find the freshness it once knew. © Name withheld until after the contest May 9, 2010 Poetic form: Pantoum