One cannot make another happy, <br />Whatever one might do or say, <br />For happiness remains a choice <br />Not even love can hope to sway. <br /> <br />The sacrifice of time and strength <br />And preference and goods may be <br />Of help, of course, but cannot calm <br />The winds that roil a restless sea. <br /> <br />Everything one does, <br /> like dust, Transforms the light in which all live. <br />But happiness is not a gift <br />It is within one’s power to give. <br /> <br />One can only love, <br />and be A witness to the life that each <br />At last must live alone, <br /> for Well or ill beyond a lover’s reach.<br /><br />FAHMINA ARJUMAND MISHA<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/one-cannot-make-other-happy/
