Stress

It eats it's way into the core of happiness
This mind depressing thing known to all as stress
And from it there does not seem a place for to hide
It can cause deadly cancer and lead some to suicide
People of rank and money it does not even spare
It can affect the poor person and the billionaire
It does reduce people to ill health and tears
And in the mind it inhabits it lingers for years
It does not ignore those at the fashionable address
And it does cause depression and mental duress
The one who does have it feels sad night and day
And happiness from them does seem far away
The one who has stress is always feeling down
And does become known as a sad sack of the town.