Happiness: A noun

Happiness:  A noun

Happiness a noun before you

A word, a senseless state of being

A fraudulent confession of the hopeful
A scapegoat for the power seeker

A figment of the weak and feeble mind

The dreamers ever burning fuel

A finite placement on an end

A vision for the drunken fool

After you, a noun no more

Happiness, a place of warmth

A simple wordless  melodic thought

Salvation of the heart and soul

A retaliation on abusive time

Consummation of my everlasting

A change of blood flowing coarse

To right the ship of longing for

A thought I think I shall proceed

A movement without provocation

This is where my life begins

Placing faith in complex unknowns

But familiar is this place to me

Dreams sleeping wide awake

Geography our only sickness

Single digits set us free

Happiness a noun no more

Broken frowns and indecision

These are my lost possessions

I need you and nothing else

Things are things but not this thing

This is all and we are here

Happiness a noun no longer

Reciprocated heart sparks fire

=Dave