Isolation

Isolation

I bear my soul in daylight expression

For darkness is where guitarists and poets hide their wrecking depression

And once more loneliness as the stage lights flick out

But that’s a story only partly right

For long before is uncertainty and doubt

Calmness within is the focus needed to be tight

Each night the need to once more reach for the artificial light

There’s no answer in sight, only fight or flight

The question’s always, why’s there this blight?

They still don’t see or perhaps don’t know what racks

It’s not stage fright, that panic into a vacuum

It’s when you can’t do anything and everything’s muted strings

Then the torment reduces as a mother comforts me

She never had performance nerves because she was a natural you see

She always said don’t think of yourself just think of me

Once more her loving advice calms and lifts me