The sun is burning my face and my ear
And now it’s burning my hand
There’s no philosophy that can capture
A moment of peace in the sun
We simply make use of
An intuition we all possess
From the old world
From the ancients
An understanding that runs through our veins
Written in our mitochondria
Etched in the endoplasmic reticulum of each and every cell of our bodies
Bonheur, fericire, we can all recognize it
And we chase it, but it’s barely prey
You can’t catch it
It’s a magic doe that comes to you
When you chant the right incantation
When you let go of everything and forget your mortality
When consciousness eludes you
When you become fungus
And go back to the basics
To a before Adam and Eve
And the sun keeps burning the side of my face
My cheek
My left earring
Diffracting through my sunglasses
Turning my happiness into a rainbow
A dreamy breath
A data point in the experiment of life
Can’t draw any trustworthy conclusions
So I merengue my way through life
And shed sweatdrops of happiness.
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