Aubade I wake up in my old house, squinting at the seam of light gilding the flowered curtains, as six flights down the city's up before me. Across the street, a woman in green unchains the gated park. The block fills with taxis. The light turns, then turns back without me. Copyright © 2018 David Yezzi All rights reserved from Black Sea Carnegie Mellon University Press Reprinted by Verse Daily® with permission 5 Ways to Overcome Sadness Differences between Sadness and Clinical Depression There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time. ― C. JoyBell C. via QuotesPics.net The 53 Saddest Quotes Ever