Where My Happiness Is



For a very long time, I've longed to be free
I want to do things that my family won't allow me;
Because by doing it, I thought I'll be happy
But how can I do it if my family's blocking me?

So one day, I've decided to run away from home
And started planning and living on my own;
I've done all the things that I've always wanted to do
I've done all the things that my strength can afford to.

After a while though, I'm wondering why after doing all those stuff
Doing all what I thought I want doesn't seem enough;
The happiness that I've longed for, I thought I'm fulfilled
Had later become impossible for me to yield.

Later on, I've started resenting the things I do
I've started feeling empty, lonely, sad and blue;
Then one night as I lay me down to sleep
A teared up and then started to weep

I honestly didn't know why I was even crying
I don't know why my tears just kept on flowing;
Somehow my hands founds the little photo album I brought
Opened it, flipped it, and there comes this strange thought.

The door I've once longed to unlock
The road to my happiness I thought my family has blocked;
It is when I realized they're not blocking it in any way
But they were trying to coax me in not going the wrong way.

Just like that, I found myself knocking at a door
Standing ashamed, head low, not a hint of my previous ardor;
The moment the door opened, I came to realize that
Happiness is where my family is; where my loving Dad's at.
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Submitted by MommyBadz84 on February 13, 2021

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Scheme AAAA XXBB CCXX BBDD EEFF XXGG XXHH
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 1,410
Words 280
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

Maxie

Mom of 3. Poetry is my first love and have written a lot back when I was in high school... and then, life happens. Ideas and rhymes dried up. But the other day I was going through old stuff and found my collections of poems that I've written back in the day. Hoping to share an immortalize them especially for my kids. So that they'll know mommy was really cool once :D more…

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