To Sugar Bear

I wear this sodden sadness

sick, shit gift of irreverence

passed down through generations

my heirloom and inheritance

coarse mask was my creation

to dress a clinging worldview

born of torn experience and

stuck by sneering stupor glue

you crashed the common market

and shattered expectations

they lost their frame of reference

through deficient information

blind indifference made you sharper

cut a path across malevolence

those years bereft of markers

defined your right to relevance

we sleep restless under Rorschach sheets

long blotted by encasement

our psyche ward union paradox

released us from our basements

the ground below, a mystery

that barely holds our weight

a remnant of the Otherworld

collapsed by leap of faith

who knows what time may deal us

we'll likely just disintegrate or

crash then burn inside our flame

or sign a pact to terminate

'it always ends where it was born to begin'