(physical poetry)
HAPPINESS
AS A SIDE EFFECT.
Forgiveness
industrialized.
A scaled miracle
that lets the others off the hook.
Redialing all the numbers.
Resetting all the stress patterns.
Solutions, much discussed -
- staring me in the face,
as I stand by
my tightly closed window.
The sunshine
is now compliant;
turned down
to the appropriate levels
of UV.
Risk-free
in its entirety.
The tree leaves
are certified green color,
the cloud shapes
- normalized,
made consistent
for the structurally sound sky above.
And those times I am assigned
to look at it,
I do truly
feel relief.
Finally.
All the aspects
and all the angles.
All the bitter
and all the sweet,
All the light
and all the darkness
have now been calibrated
into the outcome median.
Just in time
— for me.
“Grateful”
is the word I am prescribed,
for the following few weeks.
Focus on that word
to invoke emotion.
Observe each letter
with equal curiosity.
Replay in your head:
“What was shown
and what was given
is
to
revere
in all the looming darkness.”
Test all the declared sounds
at the tip of your tongue.
Sense the attributes
of the higher order.
This is the new beginning.
The beginning of owning nothing,
the beginning of feeling happier,
than ever before was possible,
as stillborn happiness
bears no inconveniences.