When You Hear Your Happiness

When you are standing on top of a mountain and you are closing
Your eyes to be hearing the wind blowing all around you. When
You are feeling the sunshine shining strongly on your face. You
Are remembering it took everything in you to get right here.

Everything that has once dissolved and you are now exposing
Yourself to all of the wide-open spaces. When you have been
Standing on the rocky shore, but you have known the true
Taste of ocean water because you have drowned in that tier

Time and time again. It is the same taste as the salt in your
Tears, but instead of having tears of that sadness you are
Happy because you have everything you could ever want.
People around you who have the same kind of laughter

As you do. Those same people who ask if your front door
Is open wide enough to let in that positivity and that star
That shines brightly. You are no longer having to flaunt
Your happiness because everyone you know can see it after

You smile and can hear it in your voice when you are talking.
The way you get excited about the littlest of things instead
Of getting boggled down by everything you have no control
Over. When you recognize that you have gotten over that last

You are truly noticing the way you are climbing and walking
Up hills, viewing the scenery. Whatever you have in your head
Like happiness is when you feel your broken heart become whole
And it is when you stop trying to tune your hearing into the past.