Nirvana

I've lost my money

as I've lost my faith,

I've discarded my sweetened words of honey

and I've melted down my deepest desires.

I've become empty,

an aching shell, searching

for happines aplenty,

only to find it's always out of reach.

My karma is too dark,

I bear within the sins of a madman,

of that, I am a permanent ark,

a shadow on the sun.

I've been searching for nirvana,

but they all yell "No!"