There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
The poem is sad because it wants to be yours and cannot be.
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
Many things have been said about what happened but I don't know either. Maybe someday. One thing I'm sure of is that all the things that have happened to me good and bad happy and sad have made me what I am today.