Very nicely written overall, and amusingly fastidious rhyme-scheme: quatrains with slant rhymes in lines 1 & 3, full rhymes in 2 & 4.
As I read it, “Realism” refers to seeing things the way they actually are, as opposed to the way it is said, or you are told, they are. So, there are 2 “realist” moves in the poem: away from “misery” at the outset, & then, ironically, in the last line, back towards misery (storm clouds), at least potentially. “Realism” is a matter of restoring balance between pessimism & optimism, not getting carried away with either. They are like drugs, and the realist stays off the drugs. (But then, what motivates her or him to get up in the morning?)
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