Pantoum X Author's note: Thanks to all who responded to let me know that the lines are in fact from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," as I have obviously not seen this, thank you for correcting my error.
I will definately have to get to a showing sometime. Apparently the fic I read quoted as well, and the author felt that the readers would realise what it was from.
Feedback is always appreciated: gin_skywalker@hotmail.com

Pantoum X

It's astounding; time is fleeting
madness takes its toll.
Those of us who claim a hold on sanity
grasp at invisible straws.

Madness takes its toll
on everyone; those who
grasp at invisible straws
are left clutching fried remnants of reality.

Everyone – those who
seek and love and lose
are left clutching fried remnants of reality,
burned by foolish dreams.

We seek and love and lose
its astounding; time is fleeting.
Those of us who claim a hold on sanity are
burned by foolish dreams.