Yellow Paint, Like Van Gogh

What that makes us happy 

does not first tear us apart?

Who is so naive to believe in a world 

where anything is free?

Yellow paint does not carry

the same nutritional value

as that you eat to survive

Though it is bright,

it will not grant you the 

gaiety you long for,

it will not grant you the

wholeness you beg for,

without first sending your

body into shock.

No, 

happiness is not free

for it begs of years of understanding

years of fooling ourselves into happiness

before it will grant us 

peace.