Feelings of Melancholy by Tom Montag

FEELINGS OF MELANCHOLY

Who says my sadness
has gone off? Spring returns
and my darkness comes

with it. You will find me
drinking every day among
the flowers. Who cares that

the face in the mirror
grows haggard? The grass
is spring-green along

the river. The willows sway.
Who can say why sorrow
never ends, why it comes

again? I stand on the bridge
alone, the wind in my clothes.
Above the woods, a new moon.

About The Author 

Tom Montag's books of poetry include: Making Hay & Other Poems; Middle Ground; The Big Book of Ben Zen; In This Place: Selected Poems 1982-2013; This Wrecked World; The Miles No One Wants; Imagination's Place; Love Poems; and Seventy at Seventy. His poem 'Lecturing My Daughter in Her First Fall Rain' has been permanently incorporated into the design of the Milwaukee Convention Center. He blogs at The Middlewesterner. With David Graham he recently co-edited Local News: Poetry About Small Towns.