Expectations

Life, you would be better off without them.
Without those infant fantasies of dazzling stars
you would be content with darkness.

Flee those wide-eyed idealizations
of smiling bowing faces
and you would not mind that you've become invisible.

If you could cast off the white knights and castles

you would not weep when he leaves.

Just forget to see your failures your failures your failures

and you will never have the raw pain of memory.

Then life, you'll never notice that you have bled out all your self
on fruitless, ignorant dreams.