Let me be sad.

Let me be sad.
Because negative emotions are just as valid as the positive ones.
There may not be a reason for my sadness, just like sometimes you're just in a happy mood for no reason.
Don't try to make me cut it short for your benefit by 'cheering me up.'
It doesn't work, for I just pretend to be 'cheered' to make you stop with your pathetic attemps to undo something so deeply ingrained within me, I don't know where I end and the sadness begins. Just let me feel. Let me feel it in all it's intensity. Let me be sad.

© Alice Daley 2014