Recent Musings

Happiness

I stumbled across happiness today.

Knick knack abandoned

beneath a bush

dusty and forgotten

foreign object

cast aside by

broken hearts and

mourning souls.

With reluctance,

I retrieved happiness

from its hiding place

and felt its universal pulse

within my hands

while complacency

warmed my body

right down to my toes.

But then happiness

took hold of my eyes

disabling my retinas

and sewing shut my lids

it crawled into my ear

settling just beneath

the ear drum

and whispered:

“Let go this grip

on reality and

trust my presence

to guide you,

happiness could

never lead you astray.”

With those words

I dropped happiness

to the ground and

kicked it deep

beneath the bush. 

Opening and closing

my eyelids

I took in all I could see,

the entire mess

of grief, sorrow, and woe

layered together

to make a beautiful

and tragic existence.