Ralph Waldo Emerson made a similar statement about our emotional discomfort after a certain age. The word and concept of HAPPINESS is inadequate to express our life fully. There is something ineffable in our awareness and I think a poem like yours answers this need to both express our role in the world and to be silent before the Mystery of it. Love and Respect are the emotions which must prevail.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson made a similar statement about our emotional discomfort after a certain age. The word and concept of HAPPINESS is inadequate to express our life fully. There is something ineffable in our awareness and I think a poem like yours answers this need to both express our role in the world and to be silent before the Mystery of it. Love and Respect are the emotions which must prevail.