Happiness VS Joy

Everyone is looking for Happiness
It is an emotion waiting to happen
One is always pining to be happy
But hardly gets it
When it does come along
It felt so wrong, when it is gone.

Nobody is looking for Joy
Wonder if it is already destroyed
When values are distorted
Manipulated, aborted
The naturalistic value
The humanistic treasure
Over clouded by worldly things
Gone, are all JOY-filled and JOY-full feelings.

Yet, everyone is searching for Happiness
Which is just full of fantasies, wishes and emptiness
As slowly, and surely, Joy slips away
Gone and hard to find its way back.

Happiness is right under the nose
Just beneath the skin, just not known
Joy is right within the soul
Waiting to burst and glow
Alas, there are eyes that don't see
Hearts that don't feel.

Hello, Life
Howdy, Happiness
Good bye, Joy
Oh, Death.

Silence beckons...