Saint Julian Press Poet

Thomas Simmons

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SADNESS

 

 

It is one thing to observe the interstellar dark.

It is another thing entirely not to be observed by it, 

To deduce its indifference to our being, to being— 

You may say: “We make our own meaning.”

I have said it. But if I answer, “Nevertheless”

“What I most want is someone here when I awake,” 

You may well laugh at the non-sequitur, 

Wondering if I am serious or, well, merely

Morose. Merely. As if sadness did not

Soar out, impervious to gravity, well

Into interstellar space, only to find

That it had outstripped itself,

That it was now merely sadness

Without a context, without a name. 

 

 

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