Happiness

Am I happy,
Even a little?
Or is it gone?

What is happy?
Does it stay
Or does it go?

Is it a flash
Like lightning
Amazing while it lasts?

Or is it steady
Like the waves
Different, yet the same.

What does it look like,
Smell like,
Taste like?

A smile,
Cookies baking,
Fresh pie?

Or is it within?
Where you can’t see,
Yet you know it’s there.

Maybe you don’t know,
Unless you think,
By then it’s gone.

Are you ever happy,
Truly happy,
Or is it just pretend?

Is the ache ever gone,
Or just forgotten
When we’re happy.

Happiness is strange,
And hard to recognize,
Yet people say it’s there.

Does it stay,
Or does it go?