Happy

Happy to see you happy

You were so sad earlier

So afraid

So lost

So hopeless

But then you chose to speak to me

And tell me all your woes

You say I make you happy

You say I listen

I’m happy to see you happy

The world will spin on to tomorrow regardless

And I’m always here to listen to your woes

Until I die

Because you say I make you happy

I’m happy to see you happy

If you keep saying happy over and over

After awhile it becomes sound

Meaningless

Just like your place in the grand scheme of things

But despite all of this

I’m happy to see you happy

I guess with everything going on with you

You never really noticed

The sadness behind the smiles

The anger behind the kind face

The pain behind the calm

It doesn’t matter

I’m happy to see you happy

I’m always here to listen to your woes

The ever present shoulder to cry on

The free psychiatrist zen master guru

Or whatever else you want to see me as

Although my world is slowly falling apart

Into the hollowness within it all

And you may never see it until it all ends

I’m happy to see you happy

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~ by Prageeth Thoradeniya on September 26, 2017.

One Response to “Happy”

  1. What Trojan gift, this scorn-tainted empathy. One offers counsel in desperate hope of reciprocity, yet lends this yearning no voice? The text justifies no such expectation.

    To look through a person and see concealed hollowness within—you might sooner diagnose cancer by studying passersby on the sidewalk. If this emptiness be not wanted, then expose it to the light and see it wither upon realization of its mundanity. Any perfect void is by definition indistinguishable from all others; emptiness is neither unique nor interesting. You are, however. Define yourself not with cliche, but through creation.

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