Poems

Poem Three - Pained Emotions

Why? How?

Why must there be sadness?

Why must there be death?

Those question I will answer,

As long as I have breath.

Why must there be explosions?

Why do people kill with knives?

Those questions I will answer,

As long as I'm alive.

How do we solve world hunger?

How do we stop Earth heating?

Those problems I will solve and fix,

As long as my heart's still beating.

But enough about the people,

I'll bring it close to home.

I think my job at this moment

Is to solve these on my own.

Why is my friend so sad and unstable?

Why is my crush so dark and pained?

The answer I will find out,

Using my own smartass brain.

I feel like I am breaking

I have strained myself too much.

But I've gone too far, in too deep.

I cannot give up and such.

So I will use my vast knowledge

I will use my heart & soul,

Because I know that if I don't,

I'll just dig a deeper hole

But why do you do this? People ask me,

Why do you care so much?

And I answer, "The answer's too simple.

'Cause my group's a curious bunch

I'll end this with a saying,

"Fall down 7 times get up 8".

What it's saying is that if you fall,

Don't just lay there and complain.

Why must there be so much sadness?

Why must there be death?

Those questions I will answer,

Before my final breath  

(Funny story. Earlier that day, my friend whose named will be kept a mystery had told me about their true feelings. They were suicidal and depressed. I started to question us as a society, as a community, and it led me to write this poem. Don't judge me!)