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Happiness

By Gate Keeper | Posted: 19 January 2010

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Happiness
It is not given.
Nor is it received.
It is pursued.
It is achieved.
It is chased.
It is captured.
It is the daylight,
The moonlight,
The starlight,
The shadow,
The light.
It is love,
Sadness,
Misery,
Heartache.
It is loving someone more than anything.
Running through a hay field.
Laying under the stars.
A race that never ends.
It is yours to have,
If you are willing to go after it with all your heart.
Happiness will not come to you.
You must take it.
The endless chase,
The endless imbalance between joy and sadness.
But it is there.
Go after it.
Be free.
Be happy.
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Comments 
bobchoi
19 January 2010
Gatekeeper, I'd like to comment on the message of this poem instead of the writing part if you don't mind.  I like your central theme: "Happiness is all around us in everything we do, everything we see, all we need to do is to accept it." but your later description of "a race that never ends" or "the endless chase" would seem to run opposite.   Maybe I'm reading too much into it?
Gate Keeper
19 January 2010
Well my point was that yes, there is happiness all around us in everything we do, but we can't just sit around and expect it to come to us out of the blue. =) thank you for your comment! ~ Gate Keeper
Grampa Pogi
19 January 2010
Don't forget, Gate Keeper, 'Happiness is a Warm Gun', as John Lennon succinctly puts it (and accredited to Lennon/McCartney in the White Album) . . . or 'Happiness is a Warm Puppy' by 'Peanuts' author Schultz . . . or happiness could even be just strolling along Cross Creeks National Wildlife Refuge with its wildlife habitat protected from human destruction.

Though it's true that happiness abounds all around us, there are those who'd terrorize and shatter it to bits and for some twisted sinister logic, for them, that would be their happiness(?)
audreyhepburn
20 January 2010
Fantabulistic poem Gate Keeper!
Audrey
wolfeyesofgoldenrays
20 January 2010
you honestly amaze me sometimes with your intellegence.excellent work
taylorswift97
25 January 2010
I am stunned! Fantastic description of happiness.

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