I just want to be happy 

So I take time to fold my Towel 

I take time to sit down on it

And stare at the ocean 

The vast currents of consciousness 

I just want to be happy

So I take time and fold the consciousness into squares 

I throw my towel in

But I don’t surrender 

I measure the dissatisfying ways before I go and put a toe into the water

This is only my retreat

Where I am safe in stillness and in quiet

In the constant changes of the tide

I just want to be happy

So I find a way

Even in this choppy day of wind

I see the loving-kindness

Slowly 

I see

It is what wins 

And I am only here to stay

I am only here to say:

I just want to be happy 

-jenn