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This poem has some themes that are pleasant and others that are tougher to understand. 

The line "but a minute of meet" doesn't seem to fit, maybe try something else. Otherwise everything flows in a comprehensible manner. 

Keep writing!

Happiness is an illusion, a coping mechanism for humans, to keep life moving. Deep down we all know that happiness doesn’t exist but we are programmed to pretend we are happy. 
Love the poem.

I’ m happy when with friends,

when they joke and laugh 

I too giggle, but behind some obstruction

so I cannot see them and they can’t me.

I’m happy when around my lover,

in some corner.

When she is talking to someone,

and see her smile.

Our eyes meet sometimes,

but i withdraw mine,

because I am no longer happy.

&amp;#x200B;

If it is so, 

am I even happy ?

And I tried dancing my heart out,

at parties,

still something seems missing.

I sit with friends, and we laugh together,

yet, something is better,

 alone.

I try to talk to her,

but a minute of meet,

makes me exausted

and the situation awkard.

if so,

am I even happy?

&amp;#x200B;

&amp;#x200B;

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Happy is a complex word