Seasonal Affect Disorder – A Mission to the Pacific Northwest (Of My Mind)

 

Just sitting there again

Getting drunk

And playing

A post-apocalyptic video game

Or wait a second…..

….. Is that life I hear?

Somewhere?

 

Is it the Oracle calling

From the Pacific Northwest

Beckoning my return

To worship and remember

My religion

As it has been

And will be

From the early days

Till my later days?

 

The ecological wonderland

Is all I ever remember

I drive through the forests

Of emeralds

I visit the temple

And then wander about

Pause, Inhale, Exhale

Remain covert

Observe the dwellers

 

Driving home

I had to head south

She stayed up north

Closer to the goddess

She served

With her unwitting witticisms

And unsightful insights

Into the souls of cave dwellers

Like me

And her and others

All playing our post-apocalyptic video games

Dodging reality

A reality destroyed long ago

In the fires of Hiroshima

When we the people became

WE THE MURDERERS

And our souls were engulfed

In Primordial Flames

 

Inert and apathetic

We remain

We look at the pretty trees

And the lushness of the scene

Renew our fake plastic souls

The most excellent among us

Don’t need no thought control

We just need a sea of green

And a goddess to worship

And to tell us right from wrong

Sometimes

 

And sometimes to leave the solution

All to our own

Wits or lack thereof

She can leave orange flags in the rainforest

Path markers

To guide our holy adventure

 

And over time

The extras all fall away

And only the Oracle remains

In her Elfin, Natural and Radiant Beauteousness

She leaks love through her pores

The love I know exists

In the forests of the Pacific Northwest

And in the secret passageways

Connecting my soul

To my mind