Making Your Own Sunshine

Perfect happiness is an illusion

You can’t switch it on

Sadness and depression

Lurk around every corner

Make your own sunshine

Through unhistoric acts

Share other people’s worlds

With quiet kindness

Taking joy in birdsong

Or the tallness

Of trees

Singing along

To a favourite song

Standing back

And watching

Other people having

Fun

Grabbing sunshine

When you least expect it

 

© Kim M. Russell, 2016