Damnit The Sun

Begin the day in front of a mirror and preen

for you reside in a place where the grass is green

all the critics sing your praises from head to toe

the compliments received would make a Stoic blush

until one iconoclast rained on your parade

crashed in like a storm surge and shattered the mirror

The colors have faded and suddenly it’s gloom

you’re now in a place where the flowers do not bloom

all the king’s horses and all the king’s men cannot

glue your too broken pieces together again

it haunts, it haunts, this thing both unnamed and unknown

the line between nightmares and waking life is blurred

Alone in the misty woods you let out a shrill

must the gods be jocular, this part of the thrill?

life is the journey where you are late for the flight

life’s the teacher you never paid attention to

a hapless fate where sorrow spreads virulently

blue is the color and it is a malady

Morose, miserable, all the descriptions teem

but is the weather really as bleak as you deem?

death is scattered, breathing, alive, and picturesque

a heart of gold never did mean a heart of joy

the hands that used to pat you on the back are the

very same hands that will push you off of a cliff

The waters of dejection went above your poll

many years of holding back has taken its toll

whom do you call after? whom do you fear the most?

the devil, God, or is it formidable You?

nothing is random and it is proven by your scars

but prayers are unanswered; silence, deafening

One yearns for happiness and dreams to chase and woo

dreams delicate as a newborn to whom we coo

but dreams fade away in its unforgiving pace

so should the best advice be not to dream at all?

the seeds of disillusion like an assassin,

lurk in the dark, sneaking, sneaking into your mind

If fate is personified it would be a cad,

I am behind him walking aimlessly to gad

-about; his directions are never clear at all,

until we stop in front of a mirror to see

the lines on my face, the obliterated years

of a life unrewarded and unexamined