The Price Of Happiness

Is the price we all have to pay

for our happiness so high,

so less and less of us

can barely afford it?

Did it become a privilege

to be a member

of the exotic and prestigious

happy club?

Is there a back door

you could enter

in their building?

Is there a secret knock?

Is there another way

to get in to their meeting place? 
Somehow be one of them -

the ones who are happy and content?

The price, they say,

one pays (of course)

is money

but money isn't merely enough.

One must also learn

and dedicate long years

to study all about

the misery that there is on earth.

And once one passes

all examinations,

and pays the monetary tool,

one is finally allowed  into the club of the happy ones.

The tall door is then slowly opened.

There comes a light and happy laughs.

A flash of glory and one step further…

to exit on the other site and on the same boulevard.