“If I seem sad do not bother to stop by”

Published on by Harpreet Chhachhia

David Boyd's Betrayal

If I seem sad do not bother to stop by
And ask if things are awry,
Just walk on and I shall be fine
It’s just another phase of mine.

(I think too much that’s the thing,
Or maybe it’s an excess of feeling.
Perhaps love has caused me grief
Or a friend has shred my belief.
I set a lot of score in both
And both have me at the throat.)

But you stop and question these tears of mine,
And ask who has cut me this time.
You are not my lover and I refuse to say
What makes me act this way.
Instead, clutching my bloody throat, I walk away
And you realize what happened today,
Since on your shoulder I do not depend,
The wound was caused by some old friend.

5 thoughts on ““If I seem sad do not bother to stop by””

  1. Someone once said, grief is nothing but love which has no place to go. You loved someone whole heartedly and now all those feelings and emotions have no place to be directed to. It shows us the empty space that now stands , in a place that was earlier filled with love.

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