Quatrains Deep in the Night

Talking to myself in the dark

Never thought It’d get this far

Trying to regain some kind of spark

Ominous echoes from in the park,

It begins as a slow progression

Nothing you’re comfortable to mention

A number of sad events in succession

Only foreboding and futile confessions,

The human mind attempts to forget

All those bruising incidents and regrets

All those veiled threats a lover’s silhouette

Against a background of sinister statuettes,

These quatrains deep into the night

When wandering eyes are out of sight

Fighting evil spirits with all my might

While our government takes another bite,

Disaster lurks everywhere

And of course the news is more than happy to share

I hear a strange sound coming from over there

Like trying to find a woman who really cares,

Way past midnight now

Only ghosts to soothe my fevered brow

They whisper from all those sins you disavow

Exposing all those sacred cows,

Talking to myself in the dark

Out for a swim with a shark

Conformists with the brains of tree bark

Personal tragedies that left a mark.