We try to be perfect
But we often get lost
We are not always right
Things are not always bright
We have a darker side
That we deny so bad
We suppress our emotions
To experience happiness
But it doesn’t work like that
That is the known fact
Happy emotions come with sad
The good comes with the bad
As there is night and day
Feelings change the same way
The world is meant to be heavenly
For those whose mind is easy
They don’t worry or bother
About things that don’t matter
They are conscious in the moment
Never once do they go out of it
For majority of us that isn’t the case
We try to find a needle in a maize
Our intelligence demands definition
To every little thought and action.
Part of us wants to be ill
We don’t know how to be still
We can say we miss the darkness
In the time we find happiness
our creativity is fueled by pain
Without it there is no gain
Stability gives us boredom
We can’t pass the conundrum
Without being tied to the norm.
As a diamond shines through heat
ours is revealed through it!
“We are all like the bright moon,
we still have our darker sides”
BY SENAIT G/HIWOT
THE ETHIOPIAN HERALD SUNDAY EDITION 17 SEPTEMBER 2023
