Melancholy

Feel the sad strains
Touch seeds new pain


Feel plain sad surge
Sense pain emerge


Feel in my heart
Odd pulse that parts


Feel waves that tease
Pain dilutes ease


Feel how cheer slips
In this sad grip


Feel a deep need
Sad halts my sleep


Feel hollow feel
Sad pain now spills




Leon Enriquez
20 January 2018
Singapore
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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