True Happiness Until Death Poem by Francis Duggan

True happiness until death is based on a fallacy
To Be content in your mind at most times is the best you can hope to be
Anyone who can live without too many mentally down times in life doing okay
One cannot expect to live a lifetime without one sad day
Life is what you make of it is not always true
Though happiness you may well feel is your due
Some who thought money would make them happy when they became financially well off only came to realize
That they still felt unhappy this is not a surprise
Those who are happy at most times are of a rare breed
And one can say of them in life they are lucky indeed
Those who believe happiness with money it can be bought
Are victims of what is known as of self deception by thought
On the pursuit of happiness many for years do persist
Only to realize that happiness for one's life time does not exist.