Paradise: A State Of Supreme Happiness; Bliss.

• Caitlyn Lawson, Grade 9
• Poetry
• 2013

Raisin toast at dawn with a lingering scent
or waves rolling in just kissing the shore
anything, absolutely anything whether it be less or more
time spent in your paradise is time well spent

It may be crowded city streets or rolling hills you see
it may be the highest peak or the lowest lake you can find
paradise is in the heart, it’s in the soul, it’s in the mind
paradise is nothing more than where you’re longing to be

Finding it is easy, getting there is hard
not everything goes your way when you open your eyes
people will travel the globe becoming bruised and scarred
to find that much too often that serenity is all lies

But as we lie here watching the flicker of that tiny star
If I am certain of anything, it is that paradise is wherever you are