Let us …
Let us engage with weighty matters of the mind
Ignore the heart!
Let us exchange wit and metaphors
To sharpen our minds’ fang and claws.
Let us cheerily sit under the sun
You with your G&T, I sticking to coffee;
Black, strict abstinence from sugar.
Let us observe the people around us
Speculating how beautiful their lives be, just for fun
Let us then move on to politics, then economics,
Extolling Literature and Poetry
Backtrack to our own memories
Praising our role models and guides
Who’ve opened our eyes
To the wonderful possibilities of life.
Let us speculate the future 50 years on
Liberally exaggerating our scientific know-how
Sighing, jealous of our descendants
For the mortals comforts they would enjoy and learn to cherish somehow.
Let us talk of wondrous things today
Keeping our mundane lives and pain at bay
Let us wonder in awe at the beauty of life and experiences we’ve had instead
Life is too short to mourn
We’ve all had our past and present mistakes
We should not allow grief to consume us
Sorrow blinkers our minds and eyes
Casting shadows where none exists.
Let us not speak of subjects so dark
It would only distract us from
Discovering and appreciating Beauty and Art.
