bottle happiness - we try have 'it' without paying full price

Something nice happens, 

I take great risks to have it, to get it. 

the path to get it really tests me. 

I get it. ! I'm happy. 

For a while. Then I want to safeguard it and make it last FOREVER and EVER.

I ask for promises and rules. 

I put it in a concrete safe with 5 keys. 

I put armed guards around, 

I check on it every few hours. 

Yep it's still safe.

Now I OWN it, no one can EVER take that happy-ness from me. 

It is MINE, all MINE. 

Yeppeee!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I open the concrete safe, use my 5 keys.

it has gone. 

how could it have gone ?? what killed it ? 

I know what killed  it.

I go out again,

I wander the world, 

Then I meet it !

It is free, it is there, it was always free, 

It was always mine. 

It comes with me, and walks me 

and the darkness lifts from my soul.

I don't use the concrete safe and the 5 keys.

I let go the armed guards. 

I leave it free, 

And I have no rules,

no guarantees,

but I have 'it'