Happiness Remains the Drug of Choice

September 14, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is giving, in honor of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha, which falls on September 13 and commemorates Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son.

Today’s poem is an anniversary poem about happiness and giving.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Happiness remains the drug of choice,

Antidote for much that ails one.

Praised be those who love both life and others,

Pleased to be, and grateful for that gift,

Yearning only for the things they have.

For happiness remains a conscious choice,

One that makes one more than simply one,

Requiring the harmony of others,

The grasping of one's giving as a gift

Yielding grace no one alone could have.

So may you both each day renew that choice,

In which each satisfies the other one,

X-ing out the urge to ward off others,

The passion to get something for each gift,

Having given all that you might have.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/happ74.html. For more anniversary poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Giving.

September 12: Thirty-Five

September 13: Every Moment Sings of Love and Beauty

September 14: Happiness Remains the Drug ofChoice