DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY

When I was nine

I thought we all 

Possessed an equal share

Of Happiness.

How else to justify

The great disparities

Between myself and

The afflicted?

Afflicted 

By Poverty

Crippled by Polio

Or, suffering other impediments.

This youthful dictum

I now articulate 

As a world where Yin and Yang

May find a balance.

The Yang of Pleasure

And the Yin of Suffering.

Each enfolding the other

In an amoebic whole.

How do we Proceed 

Except by this Faith?

Embracing the Equilibrium

Of all things.

In every life

We have some trouble

But when you worry, 

You make it double.