Sadness

Why such sadness in the world? Look
At the poetry,
Incomplete phrases of broken-hearted
Souls that yearn
For something more.

Where is the hope? Sustaining
Life amid a dark and gloomy night –
Fled?
Helter-skelter from the
Doom –
Doom of sadness,
sadness… sadness and despair.

Look at the poetry,
Broken lines of
Broken pens
Scratching a heartless rhythm
On a cold
Uncaring paper.

Sadness, bleak, unwelcome,
Like the unexpected
Frost arriving mid-September.
None are ready
Or prepared,
But it still refuses,
Silently and sadly, it refuses
Ever to take its leave.

Staying, stretching
Like a viral hurricane,
Unwarranted, unleashed, unhindered.
And its darkness and its dreariness spread
Far over the lives of countless souls
Writing for despair,
Writing to get it out,
But etching it more finely in their own
Despairing souls
Even as they write it on the page.


Why such sadness?

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