The funny bunny
Was always happy.
If you were to ask me why
She never cried
Or was sad or felt unhappy
‘Twas because her mum and pappi
Always taught her that she should
Believe not in bad but in good.
Thinking thus taught that bun,
If you take us one by one,
And add up all the things we are
You will see we can go far
Focus on the here and now
Enables us to allow
Our lives improve
Smooth its wrinkles and to prove
Not worrying, but rather whether
We, our lives can live together
Helping others, when we can,
So, no one is an also ran.
This allowed that little bun
To enjoy each day and have much fun.
Playing with her many friends
That happy bun could now depend
On happiness to be her pal
With cats and dogs and even owls.
For all who knew that little kit
Knew their lives would, bit by bit,
Be enhanced each time they laughed
Or player or talked or had a lark.
Throughout her life this was the way
She lived her life day by day.
As she grew old and more infirm
To this adage she stayed firm
So all her kids and their kids too
Knew that if they to fun stayed true
Could lead their lives
And happiness would thrive
All through the sad days, when things looked bleak
They all still knew that they could sneak
A glimpse of happiness behind it all
With a laugh, a hug or favoured doll.
And this was why, when she died,
Her friends and family, though they cried,
Shed tears of joy, not of grief
In happiness they had belief.
As the final words were said
To the wake the guests did head
And do you know, that final day
Showed them that, although she’d passed
She’d left a signpost to a path
To a place where you and me
Can a little happier be.
So, mop that tear and raise your glass
Let us toast happiness, long may it last.
Laughing, jokes and much more smiling
When said and done is more beguiling
For all of us to make our way
Bring happiness into every day.
Make this your goal from this day on
To celebrate that happy bun.