Shades of Addiction

Shades of Addiction

the extreme forms

we know as abuse:

alcohol..drugs..sex..food..

there are also thoughts

reflecting deep-seated bias..

perhaps a political persuasion

which has lingered for

years of a lifetime..

can we speak of 

an addiction to happiness

or are all of the shades

really a search for happiness..

the ego searches and insists

that the search among objects

will locate the illusive

happiness..

the search might occur

in more subtle terrain:

religion and forms of

spiritual practice..

yet these must also

bear their shades

of addiction..