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-- Two Kinds of Happiness --

By John Herlihy

Two kinds of happiness about which I opine,

One kind being mundane, the other sublime.

Some forms of happiness only flicker then fade,

Another happiness on shores of eternity wade.

We all know the happiness that comes and goes,

A sense of pleasure arrives that everyone knows.

Uninvited and unexpected, yet serves its moment,

To quickly depart, no possibility of postponement.

A kind of happiness that everyone comes to dread,

Knowing in arriving, it soon takes its leave instead.

Like a candle that burns brightly down on its wick,

Soon sniffed out, like the sound of the clock’s tick.

A job well done brings a sure sense of satisfaction,

To blow away in the wind as a form of retraction.

Money, fame, success, passing wind that is fleeting,

How alarming in a transitory cycle ever repeating.

Yet another happiness exists that draws a clear line,

Enduring happiness to fuel human feelings sublime.

A happiness ever present that we rely on as a must,

A happiness rooted in feelings for the Divine Trust.

Each happiness never to compete, never intertwine,

One kind being mundane, the other purely sublime.

We know the earthly happiness we always deemed,

One eternal happiness is what we always dreamed.

True happiness blooms a white sympathy flower,

So eternal in its moment, so infinite in its power.

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Copyright © John Herlihy

Saturday 29 April 2023