Why This sadness?

Why This Sadness?

Why this sadness?

He asks

with perceptive simplicity

His eyes glimmering with hope and sincerity

that my answer or search thereof

will lead to enlightenment

My answer is welling up inside

My heart is crying out the answer

but my lips can't articulate it

I am left to answer lamely

“I don't know”

but, I do.

This sadness is for love lost

This sadness is for love that may never be

This sadness is for shattered hopes

This sadness is for the pain of words spoken

This sadness is for words that will never be uttered

This sadness is for broken hearts and promises

This sadness is for the bitter disappointment of unmet expectations

This sadness is for the realization of what has happened

This sadness is for dreams that will never come true

This sadness is for an ending that may not be “Happily Ever After”

This sadness is for this thing we call life, and for our pathetic failed attempts to love one another the way we ought

Why this sadness?

Because it is the human lot

Because sometimes the most beautiful things can grow from a heart of true sorrow

For in sorrow comes reflection and in reflection comes perspective and articulation of feeling

And with articulation of feelings comes expression

and with expression comes understanding

and with understanding comes reconciliation

and perhaps a new beginning

for that happy ending.

WRC