A Year in the Life of a PhD

Trying to pull strands of light
From the inky abyss
Atrocities that can scarce be put into words
Let alone analyzed
By this mind
With its eternal lack of knowledge
Merely chipped away at with bits and pieces
Of blood soaked stories
Suffocating spaces
Love cruelly ripped, smashed, decimated
Annihilated
In service of the darkness
Yet there is some spark
A Zippo flame shoots up
Cool and smoothly wavering
Lighting the genius of your creation
Casting a shadow of blue centered fire
Across your beautiful smile
Effortless flowing passion to fingertips
Fulfilling your deepest desire
To be "the good man"
The opposite of all that drowns me
Forgive me for being taken
Even at this distance
With your dazzling light