You Had the Gift of Happiness

October 24, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is happiness.

Today’s poem is for a deceased loved one who had the gift of happiness.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

You had the gift of happiness,

The unrelenting grace

To see the radiance of life

Within the ruthless face.

Cancer, heart attacks, and strokes,

Paralysis and pain,

A flood that left you penniless . . .

And still you smiled again.

It wasn't pure naivete

Or something just not there,

Or, even worse, an inner lie

That said you didn't care.

It was a certain blessedness

Attained by very few

That let you live within a love

Within the love in you.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/youha2.html. For more philosophical poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html .

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