Some people walk in the woods to calm themselves

Some mediate under the darkness and the stars

Some have stress-balls and lava lamps on their shelves

Some smoke cigarettes or drown out their problems at bars

Personally my choice of poison to avoid sorrows and woes

Is to go back and get of taste of what it was like years ago

Alcohol and drugs don’t suit my palette or need

To help forget about the world’s lust and greed

The taste of cheap candy that I received on Halloween night

And reading books that simplified what was wrong and what was right

Is my way to relax and remind myself that the world isn’t so bad

That maybe we look for reasons of why we should be angry or sad

Instead of realizing that it’s us that controls if we’re upset or glad