The crumbling faces once ubiquitous

Microscopic footnotes in the scheme of things

But each snuffed light from once insightful eyes

Leaves me stumbling in the dark, falling further behind

Stability shook, suddenly asynchronous

Data management abandoned to the murky abyss

Disorientated, gone, a woesome weary lot

Brain chemistry adaptions mirror ticking timeless clocks

Those skin-clad metronomicons

Count on nothing but increasing decline

Feel the silken caress of ever loosening ties

The blurring pace of mounting decades gone by

Breaking bonds and the ceaseless march of time

Far flung thoughts, enthralled

By the constants and the variables...

The fug of ages bedims guidelines

Melanopsin flitters in such short supply

Even the tightest grip eventually submits

Into the distance, driven swiftly from this sinking ship

Directionless vessel, dead in the water once again

All fires dampened 'til not a single bright spark remains

Uprooted radicles culled

By the constants and the variables...