Hey guys!
This is mostly inspired by the song Melancholy Man by The Moody Blues, and I strongly recommend listening to it while you read this. Because I listened to it while I wrote this, so you should get the desired effect if you do ;) I rarely do poetry, so I'm eager for feedback on how this is.

Summary: Basically how Darren feels after Mr. Crepsley dies.


Empty nothingness fills my heart
As I began to realize just exactly
What has happened

Gone? No, that can't be
He was just right here
Standing beside me

He ruffled my hair
We joked around
He's still here

He has to be

No, no, no, please
Please just stop talking
I can't take it
I just can't

If he's gone, then the sky can't be blue
The grass is not green, night isn't black
Sun's not yellow, stars don't shine

Why can I hear birds chirping?
How can something so insignificantly gay
Be happening after what's happened?

The clouds seem to cry with me
As tears from us both fall
Into the cold, unfeeling ground
Now enveloping everything in sadness

Laughter just doesn't happen
How can anything be happy?
What does that even feel like?

Happiness?

I can't remember
Have I ever felt happy before?

To be happy, it sounds so foreign
Almost like a different language
Except, this word doesn't translate
How can it?
Not after this

Maybe I'm wrong
It's just a dream
It has to be
Just a dream
I'm begging, please

If its not, don't wake me up
Let me lie here
Oblivious to life around me
For, what life can there be,
Without him?

It's too great
I try to let it slip by
But it's too great
I can't get past this

The pain suffocates me
I've lost so many before
So, so many before
But never like this

Let me fall, for I already have
I can't get back up again
Not after this

Not after this

~FIN


Okay, originally that last stanza 'Let me fall....after this' was suppose to be:

Tell me it's not so
Even though I know
Sorry if that rhymed
But now I'm out of time

I thought about adding it for comedic relief but I didn't want to ruin the mood :)

Please, please, please review! Come on, you've got me BEGGING! It'll only take you a minute and you'd make me soooooo happy!

And tell me what you think of it, was it bad? Good? Great? Horrible? Funny? Sarcastic? Did it remind you of the color orange? Anything! Also if there are grammar errors, let me know.