Happy
I said
Happy
I thought
Happy, happy. what's that?

come back to me.
a plea I can't believe is real.
come back to me.
I forgot just how you made me feel.

there's a new boy now
he's not like you
we smile and live in an arrow straight street
lined by trees with candy leaves; so sweet

but candy sweet makes baby teeth, decay
till all the sublime, star lit dreams,
lose their luster and and my mind starts to stray

back to you.
how it could have been
If I'd come back to you
not candy sweet but something else
that meant I didn't need to dust my life with sugar

and then again by chance we meet
when I told myself you were nothing
standing there, just in the street
I could hardly tell if you were real
you'd been a dream so often

I never knew I'd missed so much;
your eyes, your honest eyes
unknowingly cruel fingers brush my arm, salvation's touch
"how are you?" My heart unknowingly lies

Happy I said.
happy I thought.
but as you turned, exit stage left
and I walked away with him.
I realised, candy sweet is easily bought
but happy, happy? what's that?