Turning Hope Into Happiness

To find equanimity in a barren world, this is all I ever sought struggling with these two emotions, I've always fallen short happiness and sadness are life's struggles, challenging the very best but the power to control these two forces, only in you does it rest Trying to cope with sadness, and the fears you wear always forced to conceal, those scars you bare your smiles and forgetfulness, an attempt to escape contours of pain mapped your heart, you'll never reshape Feeling like a trapped animal, with no where to hide tears of loneliness, solitude, are what echoes inside you seek for a glimmer, any happiness to behold without it, your life, long ago would you have sold Then you receive, an email from a friend this hope renews, your heart may yet mend demeanor now changes, giving you new meaning for life sadness has been temporarily cut, as with a sharp knife As time passes, soon enough your pain does return and with this passing day, tears again that burn so once again you're stuck, a new device you seek to remove this unpleasantness, feelings so bleak Never ending cycles of discontent, this your daily chore getting a handle to deal with it, or at least to ignore a new sun will rise this day, from beyond that far shore and with it a new happiness, may once again come to fore