Melancholy’s Room Poem by Roderick Dwayne Gering

People talk about other places
That I don’t care to know
For I’ve been to too many places
And sometimes I guess it shows

Alone, down a distant highway
Along just for the ride
To find strength to endure
Within me I must confide

My eyes wear weary
From every tear I’ve cried
Life’s road ….. long miles
Tread as I have tried

To the right of center
A fog and misty gloom
Places where I found shelter
Cozy in melancholy’s room

There, in the shadows
Where I have always sought
Places where I found shelter
Safe from the world and deep in thought

You think too much!
Surrounded by darkened shroud
Deep within my soul did stir
My conscience screaming loud

What’s the matter?
To whom it may concern
And why? another question
In my mind did burn

Fate! Mysterious river
Can be so unkind
But more mysterious to me
Is the mindset of modern mankind

Needing deeper understanding
Quiet places provide the muse
But in a world of constant turmoil
Overloads the circuits ….. blows the fuse

Anger is what I hate
A weed uprooted from hell
Negative vibrations of spirit
In darkness thy will dwell

Like the fallen father who I love so dear
I share this trait indeed
Without even stabbing with the knife
Our hearts will always bleed

It was a beautiful ocean in bloom
Now everyone seems in a daze
A world of woe it has now become
Just drowning in another phase

I began to stroll
Down foggy streets
In an old
European town
It was just past dawn
I came to a foot bridge
I began to cross
I gazed down the river
Another bridge with arch
Loomed in the nearby
A sudden flash
Vertigo nausea
Aqua lightning emitted
From the Archway
Swirling ethereal energy
Whipped the air
A bolt lashed out
Towards me
I felt myself morph
Into aqua blue static
I was pulled into
A nether realm
I was transported
To crystal ship

Setting course upon this endless sea
Destination the Isle of Indigoes
Beyond the Deep Purple Haze
Arriving there, champagne, a toast

Looking out the open window
Gazing upon the gathering gloom
A comfortable numb invades my soul
Sitting here in Melancholy’s Room

Trapped here in this Indigoes
Chained in Melancholy’s Room
Fear comes from feeling helpless
When you fear for mankind’s doom

Pondering those with self-righteous thumb
No need for the rage to seethe
Let the love preached truly reign
If mankind could only let it breathe

You keep telling me
Put a false smile on
Fake it till you make it
When someone I loved, suddenly gone

Cannot change the past
You keep reminding me
And maybe the jokes on you
For you can’t change what will be

Can’t help the blind ones
Attending their Synagogues of Satan
All they do is soak in the greed
What amount on the check they’re debatin’

Boulevards of broken down dreams
Winding my way down gloom’s avenue
Life should always be a party
What the Hell do I have to do!

I want to invite those who have been
Caught in the rain for awhile
Offer warmth and let them come in
I just want to see them really smile

Bouncing off these walls
Locked within this padded room
World of woe an asylum
Insanity’s full bloom

Maybe I drown in the world’s sorrows
If only I could tap His magnificent vine
Letting the fruit gush forth
Enlightening us all with the New Wine

I have now become a shadow
Far beyond galactic borderlands
A sentinel in a lonely place
No Where’s Isle gloomy sands

A Nowhere Man assigned
To guide those strayed and lost
Guide them to an ancient arena
One battles for their soul the cost

Until the duty fulfilled
Behind the veil to finally see
A place and peaceful Paradise
Where there is no more misery

Through my misty gaze
Seeking crystal clear understanding
Mystery beyond Deep Purple Haze
Peaceful Paradise Everlasting

But alas

My eyes are growing dim

Yet wait! ! ! !

There in the mists

Celestial shores

A return to star stuff

To be once again…..
…..with the Indestructibles…..

…..just one more step…