The Happiness Mystery Volume 1

 sometimes pure happiness just floats down

where did it come from the children softly ask

and then go on playing

while their angels look askance

and alternately chime.

sometimes a happiness outside Time

breaks through in a dream and into a rhyme

and no one knows but the wind that blows

who sent it and for what earthly reason

and why did it come this season?

the apple blossom from an orchard far away

so far from town

you could only measure it in light years

and you're not in that grade yet.

you're just in the way of its shining.

mary angela douglas 22 december 2020