Midnight Blues

Midnight Blues


I walk the empty rain soaked pavement.
Footsteps echo against brick walls
as formidable as a prison.
There is no escape from loneliness
that devours the soul from within;
an endless cinema of despair.

I'm locked within this kaleidoscope.
Distorted images from my past
haunt my footsteps, my dreams and nightmares.
There is no room for reality.
The players in my mind pull the strings
to dance this mournful marionette.

I follow the cooling evening breeze
with no purpose or destination.
My feet lead me forward in a trance.
I try to empty my mind of thoughts,
the destroyers of my self esteem.
For the moment I hold them at bay.

Life is a never ending battle,
one foot in front of the other,
seconds follow tedious seconds,
counting breaths entering and leaving,
listening to my heartbeat rhythm,
walking these eternal midnight blues.