November 9, 2021

"If life is not the pursuit of happiness, then

What is it?"

You ask me this question often, yet never have

You defined your own answer.

I wish I could share with you

What life means to me—

What is the meaning behind

These lines of poetry?

My car's music didn't work this morning,

Yet the heart's song still rang true,

I sat on ones and zeros alone,

Till blessed with a message from you,

Though the path's filled with strangers,

Chance bid us to meet,

Familiar friends, new faces,

Forever—these memories we'll keep,

Whatever life gives us, whatever it will be

—Happiness and joy or sorrows and pain—

As along as you're with me.

I̶f̶ l̶i̶f̶e̶ i̶s̶ n̶o̶t̶ t̶h̶e̶ p̶u̶r̶s̶u̶i̶t̶ o̶f̶ h̶a̶p̶p̶i̶n̶e̶s̶s̶

Was it ever, I could ask?

It's simple beauty to exist alongside another

However long that may last.