THIS SADNESS
By Gloria Nyagaka
Photo courtesy:Gloria Nyagaka~Poet
The last time I smiled?
I can’t remember
This sadness…
Sadness?
Is that what they call it?
I haven’t laughed,
For days
Is nothing is funny, Anymore?
My environment?
People around me?
My age?
What is it?
This thing,
Of not laughing?
Did the world grow dull?
Darker?
Less funny?
I ask myself.
Is it sadness?
This thing that clings on me like a tick.
