The Gilded Spine

Inspiration.
 

A lofty word

That tries to paint

The process as

Beautiful,

As all gilded

Words and things do.

It is just fear.

Fear of drowning

In student debts

And mindless jobs.

Fear of fading

Into obscurity.

Just a gray face,

Accomplishing 

Nothing at all. 

So we lie and

Grit blood stained

Teeth and tongues,

Hiding away

The true spine of 

Inspiration.