There Is No Other Land

Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land. ~ Henry David Thoreau

They call it a geographic
but some of them are mental,
only a change of place
in emphasis, in occupation,
in habitation or cohabitants.
Something greener over there,
way beyond or just a meander.
Happiness doesn't happen
from location, vocation, migration.
Pleasure doesn't occur
from switching obsessions,
from trading one mate for another.
We carry our island of opportunity
within and nothing outside our inside
can bring us what we lack,
can create the calm we need.