Gloom and Doom (sorry)

Gloom and Doom

Can you feel it?

It’s not just the weather, the darkness

It’s something more and it’s spreading

In the gardens and the towns

Dripping through the country

And beyond our concept of beyond

Where optimism once lit up a space

Somewhere in the clouds

And we felt that it could fall on us

And germinate better times

But now….

Even the strong seem pathetic

Against these times, their promises

Sound like lies, even to themselves

And for the devils there are gaps

Wide open and unmanned

Straight paths lead nowhere

One must walk sideways

Or down into the underworld

If you stand still, you’ll go back

Until you disappear

I’m the lucky one

But I see the doom birds circling

And the gloom sticks to my feet

Even those men who in brighter times 

Carried sandwich boards upon their shoulders

Saying that ‘the end is nigh’

Are too scared to leave the house now

For this is not the end they’d hoped for

It’s worse.