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 dark

The light would always be much harder to find

And for one already so black inside

She could not bear to leave the light behind.