Don'T Be So Happy
What if happiness were
Like sadness
Happiness would come instantly
And it would linger
The happiness would creep and lurk in your body
For as long as it wanted
Happiness would loom over you
Clinging itself to you
Like a spider's web to the back to the foot of the fly
Happiness would chill your bones
And you would have to wrap yourself in blankets
To melt away the happy
You would be in bed anyway
Too happy to do anything
Too happy to care how you look
Too happy to try to look better
Too happy to even think that you could look better
Countless times you would complain to your friends
About being happy
To the point where they're sick of hearing how happy you are
You're embarrassed of your happiness
You will try to talk yourself sad
You can control being happy
You can will yourself to not be happy anymore
And even if you are successful
For the moment
The happiness will find you again
Copyright © Julia Jaffee | Year Posted 2016
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