I Choose Happiness

I am happiness because I know sorrow.

I am joyful because I know pain.

I am peace because I know chaos.


I am happy because I choose to be happy.

I am joyous because I fill my day with joyful things.

I am content because I contentment with all I have.


I know happiness because once sorrow tied my hands,

I know peace because once pain bound my feet,

I know joy because once darkness consumed my thoughts.

I choose to free myself from a prison where no lock restricts me.


I choose to lie in the field of soft green grass and take in the sweet fragrance of flowers.

I chose to take responsibility for my own happiness.


I chose to take responsibility for my own joy, for no one else deserves the privileged of this responsibility.

No one else can better know what makes me happy.


May those who wish ill upon me be cured of this awful illness.

May the curse spat out by jealous lips, lash back to awaken their owner.


I choose to forgive you all who have turned away from me.

I choose to forgive you who snatched up your friendship with haste and vengeance

I choose to forgive you with the quick tongue and deceitful heart.

I choose to forgive myself for allowing pain to enter into my life. 


May all who seek peace find it.

May all who seek love feel it.

May all who seek joy and happiness, be joyful and happy.



Leandra Witchwood

12-23-09