TO THE MOONSilhouettes of dark shades of depression
Keep my mind stymied by their reflections
Of their nothingness, flickering and flirting
With the solidarity of my mind!
From moments of raging torrent
To doldrums deep and deadening,
I vainly try to keep my keel on steady course.
How the lunar vacillations confound me;
Making my groundlessness evident;
Engulfing the dam of my resistance!
I haphazardly attempt adjustment
To the macabre Astrological Force
Of eternal tidal Sway.
Oh Moon, release me from your moody spontaneity!
Free me from you maniacal madness!
Grant me more dignity than a moon struck hound,
Howling and baying to your mystical delight.
Free me from your spell of melancholy insanity,
As I struggle daily for my rationality,
Your immortal sheen laughs at me a mere mortal
Caught in the gyrations of his destiny.