We Could Be Happy! Poem by Mwenyeji Spikes

Standing at the gateway to happiness
You lean on the side and wave with uncertainty
How will you live with your memories being the stumbling block
Will you let your hand down and give way to the inbound feels

We could know happiness and live in its embrace
Only that we've been to scared of the unsacred
We move stealthily with caution andan ounce of guilt
Once we did put others ahead of self and look where we are now

What if we knew a life without karma
Would we be happy and fulfilled?
Perhaps the shadow in our path to freedom fade to empathy
How will we know peace and laughter with our palms firmly closed

Chest to the wind and arms wide open is the way
Embrace the whistling of the wind through the trees in the forest
Lets ourselves rise and fall, limp and learn before we run
Maybe then, we could be happy.