This Thing...

What is this thing?
This thing…
What exactly is this thing?

This thing that makes me blue
Makes me laugh
Makes me wanna cry
Makes me don’t know what to do!

This thing that torments
This thing that tortures
This thing that man cannot define
This thing that makes me feel sublime

What is this thing…?
This thing...

What exactly is this thing that finds root
In the quiet regions of my heart
And makes it flutter with foolish dreams;
Primeval dreams; dreams that began, I am told,
In the garden of good and evil.

What is this intangible object
This thing that has been the subject
Of literature… Religion and Science
Of Physics, Chemistry and Biology;
This thing that defies man’s psychology

This thing that makes me blue
Makes me laugh,
Makes me wanna cry
Makes me don’t know what to do!

What is this thing?
This thing…

Tyrone Terrence
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