RH
A note from Dr. Hendrix
This poem chases a question that took me years to answer honestly — am I happy? — winding back through teasing girls until they left, my mother’s correction, and finding I was happier than I had realized. I wrote it because happiness is easy to miss when you are not clear what you are even looking for, and I had looked right past mine.
— Dr. Roger Hendrix · We share these stories so you can know the family behind GreenTeaHP.
For years I didn’t know what happy was
That’s because I wasn’t clear on what happy was
What I was looking at was what I thought happy was
But I found I was happier than I thought I was
I loved to tease girls until they went away
My mother said no more teasing
If you don’t want them to go away
I stopped for a while and they came around
I found myself becoming attached to one or two
But sometimes they would shed a tear or two
After a while my mind went crazy too
So I returned to teasing those two
Then there was this new one I started teasing hard
But I lost my desire to tease too hard
She had the most beautiful voice I had ever heard
I actually looked in her eyes and saw how soft they were
One night I got lost finding where her home was
And with that gentle voice she asked how I was
I became fine when she asked how I was
I fell in love with her
There was no complexity there
I married her
And joked a little here and there
But not enough to disrupt that gentle voice of hers