Every damn New York minute is a lifetime
Dragging on like a television show
It makes me zone out of reality
Leaving my hubris behind
Have you ever been in purgatory?
There are no foxgloves
Only angels
The ones which fell from grace
How can I possibly ignore I\'m in pain?
Do you know what it\'s like to be forever depressed?
Jaded and folded-up in bed with a killer headache
There\'s a big black cloud hanging over me
I\'m plagued with fatigue
Enervated, I crave sleep
I\'ve spent too many insomniac nights
Wandering down an abandoned road
I have felt the force of the great alligator snap
It was electric, I was illuminated
As if I was biting into forbidden fruit and God knew
I am like no other
Looking at a gift horse in the mouth
I know what it feels like to be left in the lurch
Listening to silence reverberate from wall to wall
Waiting for important phone calls
Depression runs like a river in my bones
Alas, I\'m a lost echo deep in a cave
Grey smoke billowing out of a chimney
Forming cloud shapes
I\'m making eye contact with an entity
With whiskey breath
An array of delicate musical notes
Reminds me of my dysfunctional adolescence
Now I\'m grown and writing poems on trains
On a solo journey
I travel around Glasgow
Lending fake smiles to strangers
I\'m dying inside but I can\'t tell anyone
I\'m alone in my world
Making chess moves in my fancy shoes
When I\'m not busy brooding in my abode
I\'m thinking about a distant school friend
The time when nostalgia meant nothing to me
It\'s comforting like a wanted hug
Nowadays my life is a sombre funeral
Ere it was a paradise in Heaven
I was a razor sharp bird\'s bill
Wreathed in constant pleasure
Holding my hands out for a lagniappe.