Contentment is rhyming couplets

Contentment is rhyming couplets

Contentment is something you try to hold in your hands:

a spoonful of honey, a palmful of sand

steam from your noodles, warm dappled light

you can’t keep it for long, try as you might.

Time pushes onwards, something else to pick up

can’t carry water with holes in the cup.

It feels like loss, good things go away

but they were there for a while and I guess that’s okay.

Cause contentment is soft, contentment is small

a little is better than nothing at all.

Its clean skin and clean socks and coffee in bed

it’s each little smile that hides in your head.

Contentment is gratitude for the things that you’ve got

it’s nice to be happy, it’s okay if you’re not.

Hold to these moments and grieve when they’re gone

but this too will pass and life will go on.