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In Pursuit of Happiness
Years ago, I embarked uponthe road of life
In pursuit of happiness:
I observed a man building a boat,
Absorbed, humming to himself...
I heard a musician compose a symphony,
Eyes closed in the ecstasy of creativity...
A father educating his son; Proud
in the progress of his achievement...
An old man growing Dahlias in his garden,
observing them with a sigh of satisfaction...
A grin on the sand-smeared face of an archaeologist
looking for Dinosaur's eggs in Gobi desert...
All were happy, immensely happy! Though,
none of them was looking for happiness
as if it's a button, rolled down a radiator...
None of them were striving for it
as a goal in itself!
Because they all had become aware
that they were happy in the course of
living twenty-four hours of the day
Doing exactly what they loved doing...
I stopped looking for happiness,
And sat down to write poems...
Author: Zoya Zaidi
Aligarh (UP), India
Copyright: Zoya Zaidi
Inspired by W Baron Wolfe
Poetry by Zoya Zaidi
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Written on 2007-01-02 at 17:42
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