This is Now!

That was then    
Now I am free    
The one that I was    
Is now dead to me    
Turned my back on my face    
When I became an ugly disgrace    
My ghost is now gone without a trace    
If you think that you know me    
You don't know what you think    
For I'm no longer that memory    
Since losing my past in a spirited drink    
Gone are the smiles    
Gone are the lies    
Gone are the lovers    
Who gazed deep in my eyes    
I was never real    
An imaginary man    
Who forgot how to feel    
His heart flushed down the can    
No more is the hero    
In his comic book life    
Who saved the drawn world    
From a blank paper knife    
Erased from existence    
Without the slightest resistance    
No longer an artist of pictures in verse    
The no-longer poet wrote his life in reverse