The lost fortress of happy

I liked it sometimes we write just to blow off some steam its good that your rant made since! I rant too about my fortress.

so when one does get in and the fun is only the usual then we look for a smaller more intiment corner of our fortress. The reversal is ExtraOrdinairy.Out of the box to a bigger box is still confinement,and good riddance to confinement.AYY Ye' Pirate. My fortress is ugly concret with a history of the Most Curios things but from here I plan to launch,myself to The Horizon and Beyond,to join the Escape artist one and all. So much better on the second read through. In Ink, Dabbler P.s.Tis Better to succlude, then to go Boom!

accurate assessment of the often fleeting nature of human happiness--indeed, the "fortress of happy" is not a protected castle for us but a place we have to jimmy open with a crowbar at times, then realize we are getting kicked out. i love the poetic honesty you have here and the way you articulate this difficult but also joyful truth. the only thing i would change is some of the punctuation and what not, if that's a concern to you: "walls" instead of "wall's", "there" instead of "there". revising this would be a good idea if these things matter to you but otherwise i think this is one hell of a poem with a realistic message. great job!

Yet... I have been there once or thrice upon my steed in the heed. I don't know that you know but... I seem to see. Let it be. Well done! KUDOS!!! T

This poem is really touching...I like this stanza a lot "Can’t get there by myself Tried to cut a path once so I could return So long between trips The path is over grown; or completely burned"...the right way or no way...this is how one can reach true happiness.. " in the end, we will only just remember how it feels..."

I like this a lot, almost like exploring the shadow side of our nature and then finding we are comfortable being there...part of the process of true enlightenment I believe. Not sure if that's what you intended but that's how it comes over to me. The last line made me smile. Just one tiny thing in the first line...should be There instead of Their.

As Frost said, most have to have help..wife, significant other and above all, you have to accept yourself and be happy with you while striving to make better. Well done! Rett

Smiles:) Barbara I live can relate. Inside of me is where I live I come out to play sometime when it seems like fun I go back inside from the storm and winds before it is too late.