Old Men ( In Darkened Rooms)

We are old men in darkened rooms

Of the mind

The shutters down

The light shut out

The life shut out

Silent as a tomb

An empty barren womb

Lonely old men in darkened rooms

We inhabit songs and poems

That we write

We think of women

Past, present and imagined in our lives

We pace floors

Stare out of windows

Watch the night

Looking out

Looking inwards

To the darkened room of the mind

We know what it’s like to wake up in a dark room

Cracked roof

Damp walls

Nobody else in there at all

The involuntary solitude

The enforced loneliness.

The onlyness

The peace.

( Inspired by the poems of Charles Bukowski and various Beat Poets)