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Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Where is happiness..

Where is our happiness, really; is it here or over there?

Is it found inside a person or is it floating in the air?

Can I save my money to have it; or is it something totally free:

Tell me, if you know it: where can happiness truly be?


I   saved and saved my money so   I can finally buy a house

Then bought  me a  line of clothing:  pants and shirts and blouse

I travelled around the country  and even went across the mighty sea

But if this is truly happiness why wasn't enough for me


I hung around the mighty and have had the best to eat

I burned the midnight oils so I could pamper  hands and feet

All around me, I  built up mountains that proved I had so much

But if this was really happpiness why do I feel out of  touch


I finally slowed down my buying; my  running here and there

And then began to notice.. all of  the things I had every where

It wasn't about anything visible  that I  finally began to see

That all this stuff was nothing ... I was captive to my own spree


I was bound to all the buying because I thought it was over  there

In the acquiring and  the having.. but I was stingy and wouldn't share

I had everything I could have  wanted but   I wanted the others see

That I was truly happy but it   wasn't inside of me


For I wasn't free from all the wanting: I  kept wanting more and more

I was addicted to all the acquiring and I had so much to store

I was wanting to boast of everything because somehow I believed

That happiness was only happiness if the others could perceive


Now I know so different because I am  finally on  the ground

Weighed down by all my whirlwinds that had me running  around

Spending and having and going until it all  it was truly  old

And I began to see that happiness isn't something bought or sold



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