Happy In The Daylight

There's happiness that's absolutely unbelievable. You see it around often, but once you achieve it for yourself, it truly does feel like you're in a dream, and you almost don't believe it.

I feel as happy

As I once pretended to be

It's a clean kind of happiness

It's an unbelievable kind of happiness

It's a dreamy, morning kind of happiness

And I cannot believe it.

Nobody told me it would feel this good

I mean, I've heard stories, seen movies and read books, 

So I guessed I hoped it would

But,

This is different

No one said it would feel like

Slow, sweet, burning incense

Light shining through my curtains

Sunshine in the nighttime

This is real, that's for certain

We just make sense

I promise we'll never be past tense

You came around when everything was down

You were right there besides me

I saw your face

In this familiar place

Everything in this changing world 

Became a little less frightening

You came around

When I was nervous about the sun going down

The first party was green and hazy

I knew my place 

Was in your heart

But I think I've already been there before

I know you so well

I don't think it's some magical spell

I think it's our past life, darling

The rain was nowhere to be found

I couldn't hear a sound

Now my good karma has finally come around

And ever since then

I realized I've known such a genuine happily ever after ending

But we're just beginning

I never got it when people said

'It feels like a dream'

Yeah, I didn't know what that was supposed to mean

But I've found the healing green

And really, truly

It feels like a dream

Creaking floorboards

Tall buildings

Rain on wide windows

Tired after a day of work

Coming home to our friends

They're such beautiful pieces of artwork

Summer drifting to fall

Holidays are coming

I can't take all of this loving

Not so long ago

I cried and asked 'what did I do to deserve any of this?'

And now

I smile and look at you and ask 'what did I do to deserve any of this?'

I lost so many friends 

I thought this was the end 

I was so certain everything was gonna get worse

Break or just bend?

I couldn't find words to defend

It was gonna go to shambles in ways I couldn't comprehend

You are my moon

My stars

This is the first time it's just felt like 'ours'

Now I can see my future from afar

And so, thank you

Because now I'm not so blue

A different kinda hue

I guess I always knew

This wasn't something new

Something I've known in a past life

In that little, old house

Dancing around the kitchen window light

We may not be entirely heroes

Not quite villians, maybe

But I'm your neon blue dandelion

You're my lemon yellow rose

I can make it through the night

And everything is finally bright

The past pain and bird calls makes sense

In this daylight.

Author's Note

Just a bit of a longer poem about happiness that makes you dizzy. Love that's airy and light and unbelievable, because you just didn't think stuff like that existed. Hope you enjoy it!

Reviews

[barleygirl]

I am so jaded by life, it takes quite a stupendous poem about happiness to make a believer out of me, & this poem does that. I went thru the first one-third thinking: yeah, but . . . waiting for the next shoe to drop, wondering if this story would be (unbelievably) ALL sunshine & roses? A couple of places, I almost gagged from the saccharin sweetness of this seemingly delusional happiness. But little by little, your poem chipped away at my skepticism & I ended up seeing this poem as a genuine expression of a fulsome experience loving another person, not just some shallow delusional feel-good blathering. What won me over first is that I had to keep reading due to your brilliant imagination & word-crafting. I was thinking: even if I disagree with all this s**t, I sure do love this writing! But, as I said, you gradually won me over to visualizing a love experience THIS full of glee (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[Vertigo Cat1111]

Thank you so much for such a kind review! I really do appreciate it.

[Orange]

Its so beautiful...........

[Vertigo Cat1111]

Awww, thank you so much, this was so kind (:

[Cyprian Van Dyke]

Whoa, nice write. I said I'll give it a chance and lasted all the way to the end. I like how honest and unrehearsed it all read like, yet kept a steady theme. Nice work!

Rain on wide windows - I liked this line the best. I like watching rain and if it's through a window, the wider the better lol.

[Vertigo Cat1111]

Aww, thank you so much! Exactly I love rain too, lol. It's the best especially on big windows, like you said. Thank you so much for reviewing! (: