Shades of grey depicts the ominous backdrop of his world
No vibrant colors or even well defined blacks and whites
Just continuing uneven days of melancholic hopelessness
Replaying in the depth of the night those hidden memories
Like long lost cousins they slip into the confidence of sleep
Fitful slumber no reprieve from these hopeless recollections
Thanksgiving also no holiday in his bleak world of anguish
Just another day in the world of an abiding victim of the past.