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Why Can’t We Just Be Happy?


Isn’t funny how your fingertips are creation?

The connection between your mind and the world,

and the mode by which you pause.

How every person has the chance to be content

If we just cease thinking about our empty pursuits 

And subdue the egotism of our beings.

 

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