Sunday, October 11, 2009

A Happy Day

I want the world to be happy

I want to be happy

The universe looks on

With interest, I shall say.

A world without nuclear weapons

Had never seemed feasible

Until Obama's speech

But there are also other seeds of happiness

Perhaps smaller and less concrete

All over the universe

You can look for them

Why not?

One is sadness

One seed, one sadness

Who knew

Happiness grows from sadness

Speaking of nuclear weapons and war

What one attends to, ought to attend

Is not a bright future

That will come naturally

After one attends to sadness

To the darkness of one's history

The darkness of night before daybreak

Or the darkness around the stars, shining

Hurling us into the past, much of it still unforgotten

Brewing

Then there shall be breakfast

With light cereal and cream

And a happy day.

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