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
