Happiness in the Present

Fiction is tantalizing
My senses
As I recount a past
Misdirected.
Genre of fantasy,
Romance, drama
As if I walk between
The pages of a contemporary
Bronte novel.
It is natural
To rewrite history
In the silent solitude
Of one's day
As children nap
And the trees outside tap
On the window pane.
It is in the glee
Of playful children
I return to happiness
In the present.