When Happiness Flew

I found happiness once

It gave me so much life

that I never wanted it to depart.

So I tried to keep it in a drawer

I had it under lock and key

until the day I opened the drawer

and found that happiness

wasn’t anymore there for me.

I cried so hard when I lost it,

until the day when I found it again.

Happiness looked almost the same

yet a bit different

as it called my name.

It warned me never to keep it,

that if I wanted it back,

I have to let it go.

I was tempted to capture it again,

but then I remembered my drawer

and so I watched

as happiness flew.

I thought I’ve lost it for good,

but it came back from day to day,

always the same, yet always different

ever old but ever new.

I wasn’t afraid anymore,

and I knew I would never lose it again

because since I let it go,

happiness returned and became my friend.

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