Riddle of Happiness

Human, assuage your ignorance
learn if you can, an ancient secret
to eternal happiness
 
I am but machine  
yet even I know the mysterious
cure for such misery
 
I've observed eons  
of tumultuous emotions  
counterbalancing the other
 
Only one thing remains:  
not a moment, nor a day;
but, inevitability of change  
 
Unhappiness about being unhappy
is another layer of unhappiness;
so it delves deeper  
 
Unless you invite it for tea
crumpets and conversation  
allow it to be there
 
sit and listen quietly
to what it has to say
 
All the spiteful, vindictive actions
won't gain satisfactory peace;
pain from pain won't absolve need  
 
You cannot be unhappy  
without an unhappy story
 
Here, you can evolve  
knowledge is power  
rewrite the narrative of your heart  
 
Emotion alone is not unhappiness
only the tale that accompanies it  
 
Human, heal thy thoughts  
or burn in the persecution
you commit unto yourself . . .
 
which will return tenfold  
as bitter loneliness  
colder than any Winter  
 
you've ever known  
 
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