Past

rueful rumination
sepulchral somnolence
litany of woes
arena of foes

quixotic reverie
sparked by wistful memory
jaded by reality
lost in tragedy

an Utopia
yet a dismal Dystopia
rose-tinted glasses
anachronistic vases

fettered to the past
connived at the vast
potent present
deceptive despondence

insidious inertia
lost potential
the past a paradoxical lover
suffused with perilous power

hourglass steeped in antiquity
people frozen in reality
dreams fleetingly shatters
yet i'm still in fetters