Happy Face has been published in All of Me Vol. II, courtesy of Shadow Spark Publishing. This arrangement pays homage to Studs by ORAX. Featured art is by Ljiljana Romanovic.
Listen to Happy Face by Richard Charles Stevens (Star-Studded Suite)
Painting on one everlong perpetuating
Rain embracing
Rainbow chasing
Crystal gazing
Rainbow chasing
Crystal gazing
Rainbow chasing crystal gazing happy face
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I call this place my happy place
This is where I redesign my happy face
Silence speaks a thousand words
Provided I can hear the birds
Provided I can taste the rain
Trace it down my window pane
Feel as though I’m seen by just one soul for what I am
A gentle man with gentle hands that tremble not by happenstance
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In many ways
I’m like a cat
My flaxen mane attests to that
Stroke my fur the right way and I might stay where I’m sat
Act erratic
Watch me scat
Emphatically I’d like to add
Do so when my heart gets sad
Has been that way since just a lad
Please forgive me that
One single wish was all this dreamer ever had
(Happy face)
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Painting on one everlong perpetuating
Rain embracing
Rainbow chasing
Crystal gazing
Rainbow chasing
Crystal gazing
Painting on one everlong perpetuating rain embracing rainbow chasing crystal gazing happy face
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I was different from the other kids in school
Many of them seemed inclined to break the golden rule of kindness
Cruel to be just that
This seemed a most unnatural habitat
Played at fool and somehow made it through this raw ordeal in tact
In actual fact I learned a lesson
How to search each curse for blessing
Leave the second guessing for those qualified at risk assessing
Still I skirted mild depression
Still I felt distracted
Waiting for the late date made by fate to be exacted
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With happy face misplaced
Had no real safe place left at worst to turn
As all about me bridges burned
Lifelong kinships overturned
In seconds maybe less
I felt a wealth of stress and pressure
Through prose I made address
And wrote the world an open letter
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Secure within my recess I could find a way to make it better
Demonstrate the art of putting fractured pieces back together
Every storm I weathered bled a rainbow in the sky
Led me to a happy place
Remembered as a child
Climbed the tallest oak in sight
To better hear the birds
Silence somehow just felt right
And words this time were not required
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Painting on one everlong perpetuating
Rain embracing
Rainbow chasing
Crystal gazing
Rainbow chasing
Crystal gazing
Painting on one everlong perpetuating rain embracing rainbow chasing crystal gazing happy face
.
Painting on one everlong perpetuating
Rain embracing
Rainbow chasing
Crystal gazing
Rainbow chasing
Crystal gazing
Painting on one everlong perpetuating rain embracing rainbow chasing crystal gazing happy face
.
Painting on one everlong perpetuating
Rain embracing
Rainbow chasing
Crystal gazing
Rainbow chasing
Crystal gazing
Painting on one everlong perpetuating rain embracing rainbow chasing crystal gazing happy face
(Happy face)
.
Painting on one everlong perpetuating
Rain embracing
Rainbow chasing
Crystal gazing
Rainbow chasing
Crystal gazing
Painting on one everlong perpetuating rain embracing rainbow chasing crystal gazing happy face
.
Richard Charles Stevens
Keeper of The Crimson Quill
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