Always Us

we find the sadness

in the happiest of faces

we find madness

in the sanest of places

in a room full of colour

we notice the grey

we can drain all of the warmth

from a bright summer’s day

we can find a macabre joy

in the morbid and absurd

we can change your whole day

with just a single word (or three)

we can untie the knots of the known

only to leave more in its place

as we delicately corrupt

another safe and sacred space

we can extract small truths

from the largest of fiction

in our flights of fancy

we breath contradiction

in our all or nothing worlds

the words for which we strive

we write to live we live to write

we write because it keeps us alive