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You
Search for it
Strive for it
Long for it

Then
Watch it
slip
Through
your fingers
The moment
you
obtain it

Let it go
Stop
chasing it
Happieness
Will find
you
When you
find
Yourself
I wrote this poem when I was 21 I was just starting my journey to self discovery even the simple list things such as happiness can be hard to obtain I sat ponder and wondered why this is what I came up with
 May 2021 Mark Toney
Valsa George
I am a firefly
left out in the day
with no one to see
but how bright in the dark
when I am all luminosity
 May 2021 Mark Toney
Khoisan
Brushes softly stroked
no anger only patience
love gentle as a dove
 May 2021 Mark Toney
Khoisan
Brown leaves flux the pond
tadpoles elude the sunlight
an eerie fog infringed
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