Sadness

Sit sad, you have come to visit me,
even if you make me cry, sit down again!

You have wrung tears from others,
soaked yourself in their sorrow!

Sit sadly and let me embrace you
to soothe myself and you both!

Even knowing I'll stir old wounds,
we'll speak of them later, Sadness!

Betrayals bitter as wormwood—
we will carry them through the night.
They will fade only into grey shadows,
and I will try to forgive them all!

For the wrongs I committed,
you will surely remind me now,
but the moments I let slip away,
they cannot return, Oh Sadness!

Sit sad, you have come to visit me!