All we have to do, is live
from moment to moment...
from moment to moment..
moment to moment to moment...
and ...
try to find out, if at all
if at all,
it makes any difference what we do...
the guttural rumbles... from the civilizational chest
like food refusing to digest in the belly of a hearty eater,
seems to say,
it matters what you do, it matters what you do,
and a sleepy squeak, utters
in perfect harmony ...
it matter little, it matters not, what you do..
it matters not, what you do..
Not surprising so...
we wonder.. where do I go
where should I be going?
Occasionally we meet someone who asks
find out, if you can, find out if dare..
find out if you will, and if you care..
Is there a way of living...
AN intelligent way to wend our way
Is not the step ahead the only one in your hand?
Is not the that which is going to take you wherever it takes you?
Do you know how to take this one?
Are you quaking and shivering?
carrying fears of mistakes, problems and uncorrectable errors?
First we go for the necessities.
Then for the quality enhancers
then the value adders
Soon it is the luxuries
the relentless progression...
But soon we find
the end of many things
What does one expect?
travel far and wide?
riding the crests of many waves,
with the wind in our hair,
And, nary a tumble,
Does one wish never to catch,
the leering gaze of those who have fallen and did not rise?
Or fear letting oneself down, and our people?
Man and woman, woman and man,
do we wish at all to walk?
Or sit by the wayside,
moping and lamenting,
the cards dealt?
our resources a small lifeless heap?
If there is one certainty in life,
it is that we will go.
sooner or later,
we will go! all of us go.
In the meantime... All we have to do, is live
from moment to moment...
from moment to moment..
moment to moment to moment...
and ...
try to find out, if at all
if at all,
it makes any difference what we do...
1 comment:
Dear Gautam,
I love these lines in your thought provoking poem:
"First we go for the necessities.
Then for the quality enhancers
then the value adders
Soon it is the luxuries
the relentless progression..."
The "Wants vs. Needs" battle just goes on and on and on...?
And the lines:
"Occasionally we meet someone who asks
find out, if you can, find out if dare..
find out if you will, and if you care.."
Reminds me of 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T S Eliot where the protagonist ponders:
'And indeed there will be time
To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?” ...
Do I dare
Disturb the universe? '
And if we want to leave a legacy, it would be best if we remember these lines?
"People may not remember exactly what you did, or what you said, but they will always remember how you made them feel."
—Unknown
It's all about I-Me-Mine and "inclusion" does not happen in real life. The World would be a much better place if each one of us strives to make it happen?
And we should also recollect what George Bernard Shaw has said:
"This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one... the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no "brief candle" for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."
And Gautam, these lines again by you are very inspiring:
"Or sit by the wayside,
moping and lamenting,
the cards dealt?
our resources a small lifeless heap?"
As Dr. Randy Pausch has also said in "The Last Lecture" : "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."
Thanks and regards,
Geetha
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