emotional weather

the clouds are moving in today

exactly how it should be

because sunshine and daisies

they mean nothing to me

gray skies and hiding in ponchos

are more of what is mine

in my emotional weather

it's raining all the time

I have no use for summer

and all the summer things it owns

I stay inside my apartment

and I'm always right at home

I keep the curtains drawn

my TV lights up the room

in my emotional weather

it's always doom and gloom

          I've seen blue skies

          and I think they're overrated

          darkness will fill my eyes

          with the depression I've created

I hope one day to go outside

and participate in life

my world of pain and self-pity

is not one that I like

I know the world is sad now

it's strangled and it's strange

but in my emotional weather

it's time for a change