It’s repetitive, it's cliche, and it's getting old
Sad poems are like pop music, they’re easy and therefore common -- Too common!
If I wanted to hear about the pain or problems of people, I’d watch the news.
Maybe sad poems are easier because they provoke passions?

I think the cold fact is that some emotions are unrelatable
So, how about some relatable emotions?
Like the primal curiosity of a child opening a box wrapped in irrelevant paper on Christmas Day
Or the simple, empty feeling when your car, which had been flying down the highway, hits black ice for the first time and your car decides to go straight -- No turns, no brakes.

And there’s happy poems too.
A plot, for example, could be a grey squirrel and a little red squirrel sharing an acorn and coexisting.
There’s no need for a sadistic little boy at the other end of a .22 rifle
There’s no need for a hawk to come down and take that red squirrel away to an untimely end.

Because there’s already too many sad poems