Melancholy

Those golden years of yesterday

I spent the gold too fast

Now left without a penny of peace

Digging in the pockets of my mind but it's all gone

That shadow was once a man to me

Now he barely wanders on the edges of my vision

That world was once a cavern deep

That I longed to explore and delight in

I thought this was only time

A sharp bend on the road to fortune

The bend will not leave its serpentine ways

Leaving me a lost traveller on a never ending circlular path

Sometimes I wish I could call out to the void

Can anyone hear me?

My faceless stranger,

Does my voice travel to you?

To you I speak because you know me not

From you I have nothing to hide

Resurrect me from the shambles of myself

The night is young and I have a long way to live