Monday, 28 February 2022

Happiness’s Fault

If happiness didn’t visit
me the entire last year,
it was not happiness’s fault.
I, her sullen brother,
couldn’t bring
myself either
to visit
her home. Travelling
so far
in a pensive mood,
to her yearlong carnival of joy
what farce,
I didn’t even try.
In revenge, she swore
enmity from a heretic ground,
and gleamed wickedly.

Or perhaps it’s me who’s insufferable,
improper and wrong,
for so long
this curse is upon me
that happiness and I are
at odds
for unknown probity;
although it’s not her fault.
It’s not happiness’s fault at all.

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