The sun is setting

It’s going down on me

It’s falling rapidly, slowly away

Saying goodbye to another day

Its warmth is leaving me

Left out in the cold

In the shadows

The doom and gloom

Of the in-between world

The twilight waiting room

Of limbo.

From where I sit

Here up on high

Among the birds

In the sky

Watching the clouds in their shapeless, formless form

Drift on by

I want to live

I want to die

Most of all, I just want to cry

I want this vicious cycle of night and day to stop

I want to get off

And put a pause

A break

A rift in time

So I can be fine

I want some respite

From the ticking clock

That charts the passage

Of wasted time

A resonant reminder

Of what I have not yet done

What I have failed and need to achieve

What I need to believe

For my life to be ok.

I want a new day to dawn

One where I can feel happy

Instead of sad

One in which I can be glad

And thankful and grateful

For the painful experiences I have had

Where they have not all been in vain

Where there is no shame

No regret

About what I did

Or haven’t done

I want the misery that lives in me to be gone

I want to cast it away

Pain, pain go away

I don’t want it to come back another day.