what does sadness feel like?
it's a dark gravity in your chest, maybe where your heart is.
a longing that won't leave you alone.
it's wanting to glimpse something just over the horizon.
wrapping a gift no one will ever open.
it's being trapped outside a room, watching someone drown.
waiting on a text you don't want to come.
it's watching the sun come up too early on a saturday night.
being so tired, but not able to sleep.
it's paths not taken, words unsaid, lives unexplored.
repetition without learning.
it's the weight of memories you haven't made, and the bite of those you have.
the haunting of places you used to go.
it's the opposite of a time vacuum.
speaking in the past tense.
it's the price we pay for caring about anything at all.