Shadow Whispers | Poetry

ˏˋ°•*⁀➷ 07. happiness

everyone, everywhere
cares about what they wear
everyone, everywhere
cares about a cursed bear

the curse is tough
and the bear is not enough
until you realise you are the bear
and then life feels so unfair

you get beaten up all day
no matter what you might say
all you can do is nod and smile
that's what society cares about for more than a while

you want to be free
and like that you make yourself agree
that the tiny tiny key
is gone to be

you take some 'wrong choices'
on your attempt to feed the voices
but all you do is hurt yourself
and everyone else around your shelf

you succeed nothing at all
not scoring a single goal
the result is to feel empty
i know people like that, plenty

you think you're all alone
just you and your phone
until you find out
there's more like you and shout

it's satisfying at first
but it soon creates a thirst
a thirst to be worse
and it turns into the curse

it becomes a joke
since you're sicker but still choke
but now you can't stop there now
you have to continue your row

happiness, what is that?
can you tell me about that?
I don't really understand
oh, and I don't want a single but

what does it mean?
Happy to have been?
is it only in a dream
or in a special film?

is it pleasure, is it gold?
is it love, is it to be bold?
is it maybe to be strong?
people seem to get it wrong

happiness equals peace
not a single little hiss
it is nor a raise
nor a fixed vase

you are not happy
when you always try
that is when you should say
to happiness goodbye

would you even know what it is
without its opposite to exist?
would it any value have
if it did not provide that