Denial

A medical vapor crawling through his lungs,
images itching at his eyes,
gravestone trapped at his feet,
bloody veins in tangled around his ankles.

He doesn't notice.
He walks on,

deeper into his grave,
an endless hole,
distant and empty.

He continues on thoughtlessly,
in a trace,
ripping away his veins,
disconnecting him completely from the world.

But into the Earth the body lay.