Exhausted

Hank Williams ~ I'm So Lonesome I Could Die

I am exhausted

by guilt

by sadness

by emptiness

by longing

by foolish hope

at times like these

times so frequent

like everyday

I am defective

there’s dust on my head

letters come out bacwkards

tears without the sobs

sham depression

since there’s no real reason

fake, false, faulty

I am forgotten

yet there’ll come a time

when the vacancy sign

comes down and out

pops that other

I just can’t find it right

now

I grew up listening to country music artists, such as, Hank Williams, who died in 1953, and waltzes, such as those by Franz Lehár. 

Franz Lehár ~ The Volga Song

I found the prompt for this post from Brian Miller. He directs us to mindlovemisery who suggests we use the music from the decade of our birth as the basis for inspiration.