Heaven Hails a Happy Man

Pause, ponder as only man can, Freed from mind's prison, what-if's pall, Know, heaven hails a happy man. Right things do happen to man, when He hearkens to soul's silent call, So pause and ponder as ye can. Do take a panoramic pan, View that the world's no hospice hall, It’s time it hails a happy man. Enough this ill-gotten suntan, Stop chasing things, why run at all? O pause to ponder as man can. Pray, all that ye have to do then— Is to bridge a gulf fall a wall, Be closer in a happy den. This done, be a free bird again, Dawns dawn, not when reigns of nights fall, And haply feel that ye sure can, Heaven hails such a happy man. ____________________________________________________ This poem hails affirmation of faith in the instinctive and contemplative, uncomplicated life of man. It repudiates indirectly highly intellectual and too rational an approach to life. Villanelles | 10.10.08 |