Sadness Doesn’t Need a Reason: A Poem

Sadness Doesn’t Need A Reason

A Poem of Melancholy

The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. — Carl Jung

Sadness doesn’t need a reason
In fact, it is the norm
Tears like raindrops obey the season
Passive as a deep ocean storm


Happiness takes work and thought
or else you stay forlorn
Melancholic though I wish not
wondering why I was ever born


Nothing made me feel this way
This is just the way I am
The sun has brought another day
I wish I felt more like a clam


How does a rainbow, with its color,
resemble a great big frown?
How does a rainstorm with all its thunder
leave a village under to drown?


The world will turn no matter what
it does not wait for smiles
whether a king or a simple peasant
it spins and spins for miles


Rather than revel in my feels
Something must be done
I cannot shed another tear
I’ve cried the very last one


It’s time for you to pull me out
the lake is way too deep
the water above won’t let me shout
You need to rescue me


Pick me up and drag me by boat
take me far away
cheer me up that I may gloat
before my enemies someday


I could give in and go to sleep
dream away for hours
but I am begging you if you’ll keep
my soul above the flowers


There are so many reasons here
That I should be rejoicing
But I can’t bring myself to feel
What my spirit is voicing


Mold my heart O potter
though its miry clay
teach it to be softer
before you dawn another day