Bad Moon Rising

Time after time I awoke
last night with that dreaded
feeling of a man with a deeply
troubled and anxious mind

And as with most nights now,
I found myself headed out
under the stars to search
for a place less confined

The moon shone bright this
night, too bright as my friends
the stars were hardly visible
to my eye

The light from the feigned
satellite cast his unpitying beams
to every corner of my injured
heart restricting the supply

But again I looked him directly
in his pale face and said, "Why
did you let me ruin my life,
you bastard?"

And as usual the misbegotten
man's lack of response echoed
throughout my soul without so
much as a word

"You saw it all. Each misstep
along the way yet you did nothing
to put me back on the straight
and narrow path."

"Now I've lost everything that
was ever important to me and
forever I'll blame you for your
silent wrath."

Heading inside to escape his
unstirred rays a glimmer caught
my tear-filled eye from far off
in the northern sky

My old friend Vega was reaching
out to me to say, "All hope may
not yet be lost so hold on before
saying your last Goodbye."