Why Poems Are So Sad

My friend asked me the other day why poems were so sad, saying hers were only short and simple poems that rhymed. I thought about that question for a brief moment, and responded with an answer. The reason why poems are so sad is because you write what you can't say out loud; it's a form of expressing yourself through written words. You take what's on the inside and expose it on a blank sheet, untainted by the burdens that haunt your thoughts. Writing down every tear, every depression, every fear, every heartbreak, every sadness, every moment that made you smile, every moment your heart skipped a beat, and every moment that ever mattered. Those tears you never cried wet the paper with pencil marks. Those words you never told that special person are finally out there. Poems are the regrets we wish we didn't have, the mistakes we wish we didn't make, the knowledge we wished we would have known. Poems are the painful memories we had or heard, and the stories that break our hearts. So you ask why poems are so sad, well I guess that unspoken language colors the white rose crimson, turning something plain into something beautiful, turning pain into relief.