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Happiness
Is it like a kid in a candy store?
Who deserves it and who doesn’t?
Do I? Do you?
Are we like the candy on the shelves or
Like the kid picking off the shelves?
Who has happiness?
Is it a mental thing or is it an emotion?
How do we know?
It feels like chili on a cold, stormy, night.
Or like the present you wanted on Christmas morning.
It fills you with joy and cheerfulness.
But when taken away it’s like getting hit by lightning.
Does it hurt? Yes!
It hurts like getting hit in the stomach with a baseball bat.
Or is your heart like an iceberg from then on.
Depends on who you are and
How you show emotion. Whether it makes you cry
Like a baby with a hungry stomach.
Or if you don’t really care like a clown at a circus.
So do you deserve it?
Everyone deserves a little happiness.

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