Fleetingly Perfect Happiness

You placed a crown upon my head on this very day

My face graced a smile that made my eyes shine,

On a beach of pure white sand and pure blue seas

The sun was shining, both blessed on a day so fine.

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Happiness was bliss, I couldn’t have ask for more

My time had finally arrived and the world was mine,

White sand, bare feet, black jeans and silver rings

A palm tree, bending in the wind, our glorious shrine.

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It had been twenty years since I’d felt such happiness

A day that was both pivotal and importance combine,

I watched as you cried in joy, the truth finally revealed

We had both waited for ever so long for just this sign.

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That memory is tucked into my heart, never forgotten

Like it all happened just yesterday, our hands entwine,

Happiness this pure doesn’t come around that often

So I give way to my grief today, is it any wonder I pine?

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Our day was different combinations of black and white

It was so typically us, unspoken but organised by design,

You and your best friend both draped from head to toe

In the blackness of your heart, shrivelled and evil malign.

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I learned bitterly, that ecstatic happiness is way too high

The fall back to earth a sudden drop, not a slow decline,

If ever given the choice, I’d live happily that day again

Because that type of happiness even for a day is divine.

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Nineteen years have passed since, do you often wonder

As I do, if we individually attempted to go out and find,

Did you feel happiness once again as pure as that day

Or like me, you knew our day would forever outshine?

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