A Life Lived Enjoyed Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

There is nothing like a life lived enjoyed,
Free and removed from confusion and conflict.
Once one accepts,
Their own conditions to feel happiness...
Is not fed to receive an attention to get.
Or becoming annoyed by impressions to make,
Upon others to rate to achieve their approval.
That alone qualifies and condones one's success.

When one awakens to see restrictions to reject,
As addicting self afflictions that upsets...
With a wish that is wanted,
To break away from such limits needing them to go...
It then becomes realized and clear to see,
Refusing all nonsense to leave behind permanently...
Is not only possible but easier when done to believe,
Happiness is theirs and was never difficult to retrieve.

'You seem so alive and vibrant.
What secret have you found to keep? '

~My life lived to enjoy it.
And ignoring those wishing,
Their limits and restrictions were mine to accept.
With a spending more time,
Identifying and not trying to find my own happiness.~

'I see.
Well...
Some people are just lucky like that.'