The psychiatrist snickered
And he told me a joke.
Little did I know,
This one would make me choke.

It explained every problem
I had ever come across,
Every emotion ever felt,
Every suppressed desire
And every loss.

I found myself smiling,
Smiling to snickering,
Snickering to laughing out loud,
My eyes bold and proud.

Then from laughing
To snickering,
Snickering to smiling,
My eyes flickering.
Smiling to laughing,
Laughing to weeping,
Weeping to crying,
Crying to bawling,
Tragic and wild.
Then I realised
I was really just laughing
At my epiphany
With an upside-down smile.

K. Jared Hosein

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/pondering-the-epiphany-joke/