Happiness

Happiness

Happiness is in a carefree smile

In rosy health

In a heart off all heavy sighs

In the crystal specks of light in a baby’s eye

In a trusting friend

In truth; a present here, with not one lie

Happiness is in a quiet mind

Meditative and kind

In a stretched hand with a note

To those who ask for it

Happiness is in giving

Happiness is in freshness

Of divine smells ,

 And when no grudge, no strife

In simplicity and a thoughtful word

A brisk walk on a hushed street

At the break of dawn;

Or watching your child sleep

At night, all care abandoned.

Happiness is in colors blue and green

In the sky

and the fruitful earth

In the fluttering of a butterfly wing

In an eagle’s swoop

In a lark’s cry to the silver moon

In the beauty of a garden pruned

Happiness is riding a swing

When your heart lurch

And grow cold still

Up and down,

 Sweeping you off your feet

The feel of dew touching you

As you lie down

To gape at the starry skies

Happiness is in a book:  lost you are in

Weeping for its protagonist

When then you lift you head and laugh

For your mind’s innocence

Hath not it been for those pages

You won’t see life’s sorrows

 

That’s happiness