The Burden Of Happiness!

For grief so batters our soul,

That we have no choice

But to shine through the cracks

With the flickering light of survival

Ceaselessly, Relentlessly, Helplessly!

But grief also leaves with us 

The insatiable will to live,

For them, in their absence,

To preach and strive 

For happiness, ever evasive!

Surely, defeat or victory

Is not why grief plays this game.

But neither does she desire 

Our complacency, submission 

Or even our misery!

But maybe...

The Burden of Happiness 

Maybe, the burden of happiness

Is suffered by the 

Souls left behind,

Picking up the pieces

Of shattered souls,

Masking the cracks

And filling the voids

With empty words,

Like balloons that burst 

Before they form

Or bubbles that pop

Before a touch of love

Graces their surface!

 

Surely, the Burden of Happiness

Drowns the soul

With it's own ineptitude

To meet the endless demands

Of a wretched life 

That craves to move on

But is hiccupped, interrupted, staggered,

By a heaving, sighing, toiling spirit,

That refuses to erase

The imprints of a life...

Foregone...forlorn,

Lived just enough 

But not enough!

Hopefully, the burden of happiness...

Shall drown me one day

In a pocket of time lost in eternity,

Or lull me into a peaceful slumber...

On a day just like this one

When life touches others

With warm sunshine and

Light kisses wrapped in iridescence!

But, not me, not me,

Not today, not today,

For there is fight still left in me

One that seeks,tirelessly, resolutely,  

The final reward

A release, a reprieve...some relief from

The Burden of Happiness!

...But maybe...