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Leaning Sad
I lean sad while you stand straight and satisfied
my lean isn’t voluntary or arbitrary
it’s the result of a stormy life and
not having a strong trunk
but my roots are deep and hold true
or I would have toppled long ago
I lean sad and that you don’t understand
for sadness is a foreign country to you
you look up while I look down
you see the expansive sky while
I see the tiniest toadstool
I lean sad and that’s not bad or wrong
It just is
