Here is how it goes...

HAPPY

Smiling, dancing, laughing, prancing

Singing and doing whatever I please

Always, of course, joyfully!

I brighten the room

My face like the sun,

I make people happy,

Activities fun.

I feel beautiful and smart,

That nothing can stop me,

That I'm on top of the world.

Then suddenly...

It's done.

SAD

I cry, for no reason at all,

I sit with an empty heart

And an empty stomach,

No desire to fill either.

I tell myself I'm not real

I stay away, far away,

Even when I'm right there,

My mind is wandering.

Thinking about...nothing,

Only that there's nothing

Left, that I am nothing.

"Beauty" is a term of the past

As I stare at my blobby,

Disparaged form.

What

Am I

Still

Doing

Here...

But then suddenly,

I laugh and am okay.

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I'm tricking myself.

Happy, sad, happy, sad. 

The question is:

Which is the trick

And which the truth?