He'D Just Discovered Suspenders

No job  No prospects No optimism  It took all his energy Just to fake a smile  Health eroding  At the speed of light  His world grew smaller by the second  Former small pleasures  Transformed into ambivalence  Blank and numb  He walked blindly  There were no solutions  To any of his problems  And then one day  Out of the clear blue sky  He smiled without effort  I even caught a glimmer  Of a spark in his eye  Life became a little more pleasant  We all cheered him on silently  Me his number one fan. As his confidence had diminished  His gut had grown larger  He wore his belt below it  But his pants always slid down  Far enough to annoy him  Another problem  With no solution  One day, after months  With the spark in his eye  He chose to die  It was a shock because  He'd just discovered suspenders.