by Marc Nutton

Created on: June 12, 2008

My heart is adrift on an open sea
I am no longer in control
My mood shifts with the tempest wind
Like a transient sun on a stormy day
Have I always been this way?
Am I doomed to live like this?
Chasing my smile like a rainbow
I know it exists
I know to find it would be as enriching as gold
Yet I know to keep my happiness
Would be more difficult than gripping the clouds with a bare hand
So instead I sit
I watch the world
I live my life in discontent
Waking each day with meager hope
Soon dissipated through human interaction
I will sleep now
Wondering when next I might find it
A moment of meaning
A reason to wear my smile

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