Happiness and Sadness

Happiness and sadness Happiness and sadness: the yin and yang of life; Sunshine in the heart, a bouncy beat to life. And guts-ache, emptiness, leaden paralysis of mind. They come, they go, the bipolar of existence; or Are they the boundaries of being? Pain of grief lies at my very core; the Emptiness of loss a gnawing hunger deep inside. Thoughts of you wear a barren path to hope; And finding nothing to feed on, drive out happiness Like scavenging mongrels in a wasteland. Yet my foolish spirit resists and keeps a glowing Ember of memory, luring thoughts to tread their well Worn paths. So the cycle continues, like the seasons’ Natural progression denied Spring and Summer, to Leave only Winter’s cold despair and decay of Autumn. In time, grief exhausts its winter’s store; Nature Asserts the natural order of things, and Spring brings Renewal and blossoming of happiness. But still, in The heat of a new Summer, the memory of you Brings the bitter-sweet polarity of love.