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Applying a product design framework in poetry!
I hired my sadness today, a poem I wanted to write,
In which I could once more showcase, the abyss I daily fight.
The poem needed a subject, darkness came to my rescue,
Pathos stabbed me in the belly, as if waiting on a cue.
I hired my sadness today, to process and feel good,
If I can make sense of my suffering, don’t you think I should?
When my words disfigure the page, the ink becomes less black,
So I promptly pour it in poems, though I know the feeling will be back.
I hired my sadness today, to dazzle you with my art and skill,
Unmindful that the wound scraped, could shatter me, or even kill.
The poem needs an audience, you love poems of agony and pain,
To catch your eyes I’ll happily scratch, and fester the wound again.
I go through my days hunting, for moments of sadness and shame,
I perhaps need to sit with them more often, not get lost in the healing game.
PS: This poem was first published on my poetry blog here.
