Finding Happiness

from Songs My Father Never Sang by Charlie Schneeweis

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Finding Happiness

So I tell myself I wanna’ have a life that’s all Happiness
All Happiness – only Happiness
I always look beyond myself for anything or anyone who can destroy Happiness
My Happiness – my Happiness

And while I claim the very opposite, with Ignorance I hurry to create Misery
Only Misery – more Misery
So perhaps I fool myself and now instead admit I’m living with the true enemy
(Of my Happiness)

As I grasp and hold too tightly to protect myself with
Self-cherishing, Self-centeredness,
“My” property, “My” family, “My” body, “My” country, “My” friends, “My” mind…

Everyone wants to be happy
So we try, wet try, we try to protect ourselves
We claim that we want no Misery
Yet we rush to create it’s cause

If I correctly understand, there is a chance to say goodbye to Ignorance,
Goodbye to Attachment, goodbye to Aversion

If I could let these go away and with them my mistaken actions that create Suffering,
Create Misery…
And re-acquaint myself with other possibilities where I avoid Misery,
Escape Ignorance, and find Happiness

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from Songs My Father Never Sang, released June 3, 2015

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