Wednesday, March 12, 2003

Quel est bonheur?

What is Happiness....??
I searched for happiness.
Through the woods, through the dark years of my lifehoods...
Running through deep and steep layers of broods
Each and every second, bathing in myriad moods.

I wanted to see the world echoing in streams of merry notes
I wanted to see myself dancing in the torrents of ecstasies.....

Oh my love, oh my love, oh my love....where are you ? where are you .....???

Boundless beauty, where is it?
Laughing to myself, singing in myself, I continued my forage.....

Where are you, my love? Why dont you come and stand before me?
So that I can fill my eyes with your semblance...
So that I can drink your sweetness to my heart's content....

The tests, the victories, the achievements...all passed by,
The juvenile loves, the genuine relations, all ran by,
Each leaving a golden trail on the mind's paper.

While the taste of each beauty drives me more and more crazy,
I keep asking myself after every experience, " Is this all? "
"Have I reached the end?"

I pause for a moment, think for a second, turn the direction of search....
Into myself, I run now.

Deep into myself...
Now across the mountains of feelings,
Swimming through the oceans of thoughts, the joys, the griefs, the actions and reactions....!!

I walked past all of them in patience, in hope...
And at last I found it there.

I did not know whether to laugh or cry!
It sits in silence there, the happiness.

Hidden by clouds of passions and desires,
Covered by illusions and delusions,
Within the cores of myself. Its there.

Clad in a dress of light.
Powered by love's might.
A gift to the sight.

Oh, now I know, what I have eyes for? Is it not to see you ?
Now I know why I have these ears, Is it not to hear you in infinite silences?
Now I know what for I have a mind, Is it not to get lost in your muse?

What can I say now?

I am the incarnation of happiness.
I am the embodiment of love.
This existence is just an expression of that beauty.

Love is my form.

Pardha Saradhi (pardhu@gmail.com)