Poetry / Happiness...A place within

Happiness.
Eluding us, as we search believing it can be found somewhere out there.
Sometimes we look for it in a job.
Other times we seem to think it is found in someone else.
Happiness somewhere out there.
We put stipulations on it, as we change our path searching for it in a new house, partner, power and approval.
Sometimes we really think we have found it.
Fooling ourselves sometimes for years, as we live believing our happiness is based on what we see around us.
Until the day we no longer have it and decide to search once more.
One day we find it in money.
And one day money buys it no more.
Another day it’s found under the spotlight of fame, recognition and reward.
But on this quest for happiness we only experience its satisfaction as brief moments scattered throughout time.
Just when we seem to hold it, we look around and have it no more.
Sometimes we spend our whole lives searching around us as we fail to see its obvious location within.
Maybe in our search for happiness, we have mistaken it for what it is not.
Blinded by our egos, as we hungrily search for more. Looking for gratification in people, places and things.
Comparing ourselves to those around us as our need only leaves us looking for more.
Measuring our value in standards based on others and what they will think.
Forgetting ourselves.
Selling ourselves.
Fooling ourselves.
Losing ourselves.
Dying as strangers to ourselves.