A Complete Failure, Overwhelmed With Joy

A complete failure, overwhelmed with joy. I wanted to write a beautiful rhyming poem for your contest David, but alas! I'm a complete failure! What! A complete failure you say! Yes, that's what I said! A complete and total failure! But... wait a minute... isn't a failure, in it's very essence it's very core mean not achieving your goal, hence being incomplete, or imperfect? How can something therefore, inherently imperfect or incomplete, then be complete? Impossible!!! ok ok, so I'm just a failure then. Even so, being the failure that I am, some days I am overwhelmed with joy! What! Overwhelmed with joy! Joy, is a beautiful inner quality, a feeling of contentment and happiness. Can you really get too much? Does that makes any sense? (Oh look an unintentional rhyme just jumped in there! Good! Anyway...I digress.) Overwhelmed with joy...hmmm I can see it now, going to the psychiatrist and saying Doctor! Doctor! You've got to help me Well, what is it! I'm overwhelmed with... Anxiety? No! Grief? No! Sorrow? No! Pain? No! It's too hard even to express in words! Go on! Don't worry, everything you tell me is confidential! ok ok .. it's just... that...I'm so overwhelmed with... Yes... Joy....there I said it! Like that's ever going to happen! Or the conversation as follows: Hey Bob, did you hear about Joe? No, what happened? He killed himself! Really! Yeah poor guy, was just so overwhelmed! With anxiety? No! With grief? No! Pain? No! Sorrow? No! What then? It was the... joy... really? Wow! that joy will get you every time! Yeah, I guess he just got so overwhelmed and couldn't take it any more! Poor fella! How did he do it? Drowned himself in a thimble of water! Really! Wow! Must have felt like a complete failure!!! John Derek Hamilton August23,2016