The Choice To Be Happy With Other Happy People Poem by RIC BASTASA

it should have been
all about love and family
and home

and places of our
wonders
and friends who are
coming
to join us in this
merry making

we have chosen this place
we have agreed
this time nothing about tears
or bombings
or wars or hatred
nothing about betrayals and
murders or plots
nothing about rebellion and
conspiracies

we choose to be happy
we choose to be one in this spot
we are at peace
we are in love.