Escaping Sadness

by Kenneth Vincent Walker / January 19th, 2025

We can never escape
Sadness for too long;
For every song that we
Sing must eventually
End in silence. The loss

Of a dear friend typically
Is much harder then we
Thought it would be and
Now that they’re gone
There is an emptiness,

A hollowness, within us.
Death should not be a
Surprise yet it always is.
We can never escape
Sadness for too long; it’s

A foregone conclusion.

Kenneth Vincent Walker is a "New Formalist" Poet, Spoken Word Artist, Performer, and Author of BORDERLINE ABSURD (An Exercise in Rhyme and Reason), published by Poem Sugar Press 2015. Read other articles by Kenneth Vincent.

This article was posted on Sunday, January 19th, 2025 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.