Eight-line Poems

Relativity

Relativity

It’s the same with everything,
there is no joy without pain,
it’s suffering gives happiness
its flavour, sparkle and edge;
light without darkness is glare
unbearable, the eye goes blind,
and so it is with life, as death
saves from empty monotony.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 11.13.21
Prompt: The poem About Suffering by Elisa Gabbert.