Happiness Sappiness

Take love
(for example)

No, I cannot love
(it burns)

So I write poems instead
(sappiness)

So I cry from my window
(a troubadour)

Yes, I am on an abandoned continent
(emptiness)

Call it my dark fate
(a refusal to live?)

But I can see lights on the horizon
(a better place?)

I can see love’s light
(a new day?)

So I must try
(happiness)

I must sing
(unbound)

                                       —Adam Maue

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