• Melancholy-

    The emotion which is infrequent for me to encounter,
    vague in meaning, powerful when feeling
    When solitary,
    When confiding in a friend,

    On the long, silent, still nights,
    staring, observing,
    patterns in the ceiling,
    thoughts racing through my mind.

    When friends leave, fade into the background of my life,
    Leaving me there, alone, stranded, vacant, full of despair,
    Wallowing in self-pity.

    Sitting at a desk,
    Blank piece of paper in front of me,
    Waiting, anticipating the feeling of being filled with words
    Perplexed, wondering why this is happening,
    Why? WHY?!

    Stricken and worn, alone and terrified,
    I lay gazing into nothingness, contemplating the enigma called

    Melancholy