Happiness

Happiness

Happiness is the elixir

That keeps you going

Happiness is the destination

Where everyone wants to go

Happiness is that treasure

You search even in the dirt, to find

Happiness is that thing you want,

But all you have got is sadness

When you pursue the former

You seem like a magnet to the latter

You think, and think and think

And search every corner in the world

You find yourself sad every day

For that feeble fire, that can be extinguished

By even a small blow, you feel

That fire, you do not realize

In you, unseen by your opaque eyes

-          Arathi Menon