Memoriam (dust to dust)

[rough draft]

you'd become forgotten
nothing more
than spiral bound yesterdays
withered in weathered cardboard

i loved you once
dismissed inappropriate
and greyhounded
thousands of miles
and lifetimes away

like cancer you return
marring the make-believe
i believed you to be
attacking the celluloid seams
that held you high
a marble fauned beauty
faded to grey
on a pedestal crumbled to dust

in the glory of
the page burning flames
your reality never nears
the better off dead
of my memoriam