This Poem was Submitted By: lonnie hicks On Date: 2002-12-19 02:39:10 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Happiness

I pursue happiness in dictionary pages; she ricochets between   hap and hapless, good and bad luck fortuna, joy, felicity aptness and prosperity-- all aligned. I interrogate her subtler phases; she dismisses fair and unfair, right and wrong to favor hit or miss luck and unlucky-- random vagaries her silhouette. Indigestible gruel this. My grandmother smiles: now there child she used to  say 'ok to be born rich better to be born lucky.' Grannie was smarter than I looked. How can this be? Only pursuit is guaranteed? My happiness now mired in uncertainty? I'm left on life's road-- hitch hiking mystery-- accidents of life rule my chances at felicity? What now to guide my dreams? Fortuna's fates gamble my bed rock road of iron and steel, my dusty dry uncertainties; hoisted up or down by cuspal forces unforeseen and unforeseeable? Cruel fates gambol here wrangling Hope for life's branding "no guarantees" "no hapful rights civil." Many lives then random touched are altered in the final cusp by twistful fates our happiness clutched hap or haplessness-- good luck or bad luck. This is all that's guaranteed. Too true these words. Too many these tears. so many times I discover truths pursued and uncovered are sometimes best left  only lightly touched. Wish I hadn't pursued this one and had closed my dictionary; but, again, no such luck.

Copyright © December 2002 lonnie hicks


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