Pursuing Happiness Since a Child Aged 8
Staring into a sky so perfect blue
The wispy white clouds
highlighted now stand further out
And I am suddenly stood transfixed
And I can feel the sun warming
comfortably at my back
As I am dressed inappropriately in black
And all I see abound me is shimmering in glee
The breeze is dancing throughout the
heather unabridged scott care free
Until no longer on I wish no more on to go
As ever so suddenly I realize I am
awakening
Now the bird song comes into soft focus
I somehow never noticed a moment just before
Flowing ever so gently at towards me out
from nature's tree
Nothing left of this day I wish nor
want again to pursuit
And all I do nodd in acknowledgement
and appreciation
As come to think of it I haven't spoken
nor said anything in a while
All I can do and am doing is wearing
a cheesy grin and smile
And I am drowned in fits and spurts
Of the rapture of the silence
taking over me
I've finally jettisoned all of my pain
and distain away
Set cut adrift from my stricken ship
I am finally free at last
As I think I have at last least found my
Field of Dreams
And so too found release
I one day seen walking out hidden behind
that rainbow
I witnessed in a park after a rain shower
And this is one of those days forevermore
I will remember
Lest forget
As I haven't had precious little of these
In fact very few and far in-between
Since I was a young child of
perhaps maybe aged 8 years old
And though it may have taken an
eternity for me here to arrive
I certainly don't plan leaving this
Helium balloon magical infused life
Any time soon
Without putting up an erstwhile fight
Because I think I have done and sacrificed
Enough for and on the part of other's
In order for me to believe and justify
I truly deserve staying put
And I am going nowhere
Unless that be
Receding back to much happier time's
Un - Malighed
&
Un - Tarnished
Unless of course that is
Loving and caring
Is deemed to be my crime
And if so be it that is the case
For the prosecution to charge me with
Then that also suits me just fine as well
As who better than I
knows myself fully warts and all
Also to as well
And I now have all my ducks in a row
Which I am willing and enabled to defend
As upon reflection up until now
I can finally fall soundly asleep
Come the haunting bewitching
Hour strikes
Death of day cometh midnight
Copyright © Christopher Flaherty | Year Posted 2023
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