THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS!!

The pursuit of happiness!!

I see a picture from my childhood,

I am smiling, I look happy,

Then I look into the mirror instinctively,

And it dawned upon me; everything I understood,

My eyes looked red and puffy,

My face has lost its glow,

My smooth, flawless skin too, did go,

And it happened ‘coz I stopped being happy,

There was a time in the glorious past,

When I could giggle for many an hour,

When my heart was free, gliding afar,

And it makes me wonder, why didn’t it last,

My priorities changed, I entrenched myself into work,

I ignored my supportive family, my adorable friends,

Now I am alone, it’s too late to make amends,

I don’t have a life anymore, what I had has gone berserk,

I am in a perpetual state of melancholy and sadness,

To the blissful days, i want to turn back the clock,

Within me, I badly wish to lock,

That desirable, yet evanescent feeling of true happiness………