By: Tatiana C. (2024)
And those who danced were thought to be insane
By deafened who could not hear music play.
Through laughter, mockery, so cruel, so vain,
A judgment quickly strips them of joy and gay.
The pleasures of life within innocence,
With stupid happiness beyond compare,
When all they offered: solely dissonance,
And arrogantly ever so “aware.”
Embodying a pessimist’s big boast
Does not make one the greatest intellect.
Refuse to think–simply ponder at most–
Indifferent my heart shall I protect.
But must I add, optimism’s dreadful
Inflated happiness is a headful.