The Happiest People Cry the Hardest
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In the Shower I Sit
by S.H. Vafai
In the shower I sit.
I see me
running naked
through the plastic door,
vision small, like a hole.
In the red abyss, I run,
in the redness.
Naked,
back to me,
I run.
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About the Book
The Happiest People Cry the Hardest is a book of poems that explores the solitary experience of being alive and at the same time, the interconnectedness of all living things. The poems are like secrets or dreams that embrace both darkness and light and embody the spectrum of human emotion such as rapture and misery, laughter and sorrow, love and hate, fear and hope.
About the Author
S.H. Vafai is a seventeen-year-old poet who has performed poetry at the Kennedy Center and the Atlas Performing Arts Center among other venues. He is a sophomore student at the University of Maryland-College Park living in Bethesda, Maryland with his parents and two older brothers.
Guita Vafai is an artist and a professor of design and drawing at the University of Maryland-College Park and Montgomery College living in Rockville, Maryland with her husband and daughter.