What is happiness
I ask.
Is it a blossoming flower
Or a baby’s first smile
Is it a mornings bathing sunshine
Or a walk across the sea?

Happiness is found
Where smiles
Are your music
And life your instrument
Where nothing is everything
And living bare
Is living like a king.

What are riches
I ask
Is it diamonds and golds
Or lush draped houses
Is it the latest model In luxury
Or an expensive vacation at the Bahamas?

A rich person
Is he who lives bare
Worse than a church mouse
East End poverty.
A rich person
Is he who is
Not defined by his gold
Only by his sterling characters
And a rich personality.

What is being strong
I ask
Is it muscles bulging in power
Or a weightlifting champion winner
Is it an executive of a firm
Or the president of the states?

Being strong
Is keeping back a word of evil
Or not letting your guard down
Even though you feel like giving up
Being strong
Is helping out someone in need
When the whole world turned their backs.

Some people measure
Happiness
Greatness
And strongness
By materialistic measures
Not realizing that there owning treasures

They could have it all
Riches, palaces, and golds
They could be going through life
Having it miserable.

Go ahead
Choose life.