Infection Of Happiness... Poem by RIC BASTASA

you see
them and you like the way
they make
themselves happy like they were
doing a duet and the song
was just perfect
to make you happy too and not just that

perhaps to sing with them
or if not
perhaps for you to sing without thinking
whether
there are those who listen and who later on

gets infected with this happy thing
and they too sing with you
as though you are not there with them

as though all of you do not exist anymore
because you are all taken away
with the happiness of a song.