“Happiness is the sound of your laughter when you have not noticed it.
Happiness is the vision of a smile that was meant for your eyes.
Happiness is the invisible touch of wellbeing, strength, passion and pride.
A thousand different earthly effects combine to create that elusive sensation.
A heady drug that evades the user’s own conscience,
Only noticeable through its very absence.
For happiness does not slip away gently like the cover of darkness?
Happiness numbs the mind, body and spirit as it makes its escape
Like invisible venom in the blood of a bitten animal blind to its death.
As the mist clears dawns’ sleepy dew from eyes and the heart seizes in shock;
The senses strain under indescribable pressure, unwilling to accept the emptiness.
A desperate search begins for the all-embracing happiness that has simply vanished.
Not a warning to steel those frail nerves of faith in its existence.
Not a trace to prove it even existed here at all.
Not a sign of where it has gone or why it ever left."