Jaded Elation

A sliver of hope dances through my sky
and crashes into another lifetime. 
Always the journey she used to say.
Never the destination.
I still see visions of failed memories,
As they wander through an atrophied mind.

Kisses are blown at a forgotten love,
They drift looking for a face in this world of masks. 
I see a light on a dead horizon... 
Glowing like a sapphire in a sea of ash. 
But it's a distraction and nothing more...
Just an instrument to measure the pain
That swallows me from time to time.