WE CAN NEVER BE HAPPY
H. W. Bryce
Red mini comp Dec 24,21 –
We can never be happy
As long as babies are left to cry
We can never be happy
As long as husband beats wife
We can never be happy
As long as Peter has to pay Paul
To pay rent
We can never be happy
As long as nation faces nation
With envy and holds him as enemy
We can never be happy
As long as respect is not practiced
We can never be happy
As long as the elderly are left to die
As in a pandemic
We can never be happy
As long as dignity is not granted
As long as drugs scour the world
And take our children
We can never be happy
As long as lost children, murdered
And missing women are not found
We can never be happy
As long as discrimination scars our world.
Or as long as police behave as thugs and
Beat and kill and rule with brutality…
Or as long as people claim supiority in the
Name of religion…we can never be happy.
And we can NEVER be happy when a single
Macro ego lives in a previous centry in his
Head and lets his heart wilt but rains bullets
And bombs and rockets upon women and children
And bread lines and marked shelters
As long as war lords exist and continue to rake
Over others’ lands to spread their evil power
Inspired by Martin Luther King’s famous Freedom speech,
“We can never be satisfied…´(as long as discrimination lasts…etc”)
As heard during the Cdn docu-tribute to Oscar Peterson, in the segment
Hymn to Freedom (words by Harriette Hamilton).
WHAT MAKES US HAPPY
What makes us happy is acceptance
And tolerance, and a chance given freely,
What makes us happy is a hand offered
In friendship, and a welcoming smile
and acceptance
What makes us happy is working together
As one in union and companionship
and acceptance
What makes us happy is a hug and a hot drink
In the quiet of the day, relaxing, together\
In acceptance
What makes us happy is guiding our children
In the art of peace and co-operation
and acceptance
What makes us happy is the feeling of belonging,
Of being one with another, feeling free and unfettered,
And song and dance and laughter and visiting
Back and forth and always feeling welcome
And never feeling put down or criticisised,
Never being nagged or carped at or the need
To weep in regeret for discrimination or bullying,
Never having to fight to defend Right and
Dignity or to quarrel or to live without respect
But being one in unity with all, midst love
with acceptance.
What makes us happy is when giant egos shrink
And learn the meaning of humanity, which includes
All people,
Just the very basics of life.
That’s all.
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There will be no happiness
Till tyrants are put out of business
It is not the business of mankind to destroy
But to create
It is not the business of mankind to put down
But to build up
It is not the business of mankind to hate
But to love
(Here I then recalled Jacob Marley)
“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!” Marley rues the wrong priorities he held in life.
And may Putin die as he lives, in ignominy.
Congratulations Putin,
You are hereby awarded the prestigious medal of
World’s Most Evil Bastard.
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