Poetry For You
Poetry Happiness She spoke in waves of silence Quiet only she could hear Others barely noticed That she was hardly ever there. For they had used her at their will And cared nothing when she fell Broken, her heart a gaping hole But somehow, somehow, she managed to keep herself whole. Bit by bit, piece by piece, She stitched herself together And wondered why, when she was fresh again They never acknowledged her presence. She had yet to learn that in this life There is no such thing as forever happiness For happiness is fleeting; It’s barely there at all. And when you try to catch it All it does is make you fall. Hope She held onto the sunset Capturing its every ray in a glass And hoped and hoped and hoped That this perfect day would last. But night was falling faster Filling her with its hues She whispered “no!” as the sunlight left the sky For she knew that in the...