The Rights And Wrongs Of Despair

It is a despair that common and familiar
that most people don't see it when it is
in front of them, and yet it is acute.
It remains an unknown unknown
whether Kierkegarrd suffered more,
for being more 'authentically' himself
whatever his company, or lack of it,
or whether his pain was better
when it felt more like the pains
that Kierkegaard speculated other people felt.