Saturday, December 6, 2014

Happiness (Your Seat At The Table)


How silly
you must have felt 
when you realized

happiness
had been there 
the whole time

smiling, shaking its head
laughing at you from a table
in the corner of the room

watching your performance
of wailing and moaning
over nothing

now you make your way
across the crowded floor
to the table by the window

head bowed, nervous grin
past anger, fear, and grief
and all that blocked your view

to rest easy and raise a glass
to the death of those things
that blocked the light

and wonder no more
what happiness might say
if you took the time to listen.


Ken Owen   Van Niddy Press   December 2014

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