Melancholy Chains

By: Felix Perry

I collect all my hurting tears at sundown

Save them in a green-hued Mason jar

Placed on the ledge beside my window

Waiting for my returning, distant star

No, I won’t cry when the sun is smiling

Don’t want no one to know my true pain

Each day, I paint a smile on like it’s make-up

That will blend in even if it starts to rain

I know my days are swiftly running down

I can see the writing clearly on the wall

And as they also say…I’m not afraid to die

My heart watched too much love rise and fall

I’ll close my eyes once more tonight

But I’ll toss and turn till morning light

I didn’t give up, I just accepted my own fate

That it is what it is, be it wrong or right…