choose to be morbid the trending cried
the literati from side to side
you could write about anything
paint a picture with a mending wing
why must you write about darkness
in a short verse or a long
why it always a broken song
a reason to mourn
a bird whose plummage
is shorn
greeting card verse
you say so beumused
when anyone writes about happy news
you, your afflictions are all
that you impart
you are the charger of the charge
why must you measure bitter yards
and never the sweet
why must you write about darkness
is there a gun held to your head
talk of the living, not the dead
you act it's a fait acompli
always to speak of hell
of nothing going so well
recounting all of the lies
thumbing your nose at Paradise
and then you expect a prize.
why why of looming despair
must you write about darkness
and never about eclairs.
mary angela douglas 7 july 2023
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