Blue Monday
When I was young I laid
Among leaves and waves of jade
Calmly passing time in the shade
Under the placid sky all day
Then the wind swept away
All the memories that I made
Alone and afraid, cold and disdained
Delicately drowned in the rain
Dissolving slowly in the floods and the storms
A lifeless corpse left to rot with the worms
Sunk and submerged, though not moving at all
Isolating myself as I build up a wall
No emotions to feel or love in which I can wallow
Nor even any sorrow I can manage to swallow
Just nothingness that bubbles up through the veins
Discontentment that flows down the grooves in my brain
The evening is quiet and the time is cold
Memories fade as friends grow old
The night air may choke, as darkness unfolds
But the morning is lush and paved with gold