Saturday, January 24, 2009

On happiness

it bubbles out of me like
a brook by a fawn in the forest

spilling over the hedges
flurrying, bouncing off the rocks
and sweeping down the
waterways, wildly flailing.

Exultant, spreading
through my being,
a wildfire heat,
searing the tips
of my dried reeds,

blackening them, of them,
building a fertile ground for
the trees to come

I am aware of the fleeting nature of flame,
how the light burns out.

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