i shall write a happy poem I shall write a happy poem I must, I write too little happy poems Why do I write such sad poems When I appear so happy Where is the happiness I need to write a happy poem? I shall write a happy poem And yet, this isn't happy This is turning out to be so sad I should write a happy poem I'm a happy person, am I not? Sometimes I don't know anymore I don't know whether I'm happy or not And if I'm not Why am I sad? Who can tell me Why I'm so sad? Who can tell me Why I can't find happiness? I have everything To keep me happy But if I wasn't happy in the first place How am I to keep being happy? I shall write a happy poem But it seems This is a sad poem.
chiiyo's comments :
I crack a smile everytime I read this poem again. You see, I was extremely depressed at one point of my life, and I wrote poems by the pages. I showed most of the tamer ones to my best friend, who started crying. Apparently they were too sad for her. So what I did was that I told her I was going to write a happy poem. I even wrote the title down. Unfortunately, as you might have deduced for yourself, the title didn't do much help, except, perhaps to remind me of the futility of the task.