Response to Fleur Adcock’s “Things”

Name your pain

You’ve counted your pains
And have named them one by one.
Your open eyes are on the closed doors
Why don’t close your eyes to see the open doors within
Worry and sorry do not bring the pill
They never can change how you feel
You close more doors when you look at closed doors.
Breathing hope is finding a way you can truly live.
Being happy is a choice and not for life to give
Pain is inevitable so is happiness
One day is for the rain and another for the sun
You get drowned today, and tomorrow you burn
So don’t give up before it gets to your turn
That one day you will truly stop to mourn

Tochi