Aquarium

An aquarium full of sadness

Harbouring all my tears

Payback for all my badness

And the elevation of your fears 

 

The level keeps rising

The depression never leaves

There’s nothing less surprising

Than a broken man who grieves

 

An atmosphere of terror

Once haunted this place

It was a monumental error

To ever treat you with disgrace

 

You grow accustomed to the silence

The monotonous hum

It’s louder than the violence

That transformed this palace into a slum 

 

The infrastructure’s decaying

Time is running out

This damaged fool is praying

For an emotional drought

 

But the flood persists

It will not cease

Kindness resists

My desperate hope for release

 

 

Dennis Earl

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Sunday, July 19, 2009

3:04 p.m.