Laughing Gas. (Chasing The Aurora)

Nostalgia


Used to be an illness with medicine and stern words of warning

Then it had it's heyday, middle aged and weepy but rehabilitated

If not fashionable.

Then sadly it became outdated, yesterday's emotion.

How I ache for those days.



Sentimentality


Another mental sprain glazing the user in a vitrine of longing,

Fixing free floating feelings on obsolete objects.

Antique artefacts rubbed longingly, suspiciously.

Yesterday's fad redundant, becomes today's reliquary

Tomorrow's curio.



Twin aches, like arthritis and lumbago

The sadistic Gods of old age.

Or Hypnos and Thanatos the dark Gods of

Sleep and death, to a citizen of Troy.



Where the heroic thinkers only sentiment was

In dreaming of a future nostalgia.