Because - Version 2, Stanza 1

(this is the first verse of 10 I started in January 1997 and substantially revised in April 2010 some 12 years ago. I think it’s still growing. because morning comes and daylight happens because yesterday may well be put right because there were better memories (remember) because truth was not always to the fore because whatever is said is said regardless because things do go wrong, awry, fall apart because two plus two does equal four because the rumours had more truth than lies because a minute is divided into sixty seconds because damnation and salvation are opposites because life itself isn’t always as expected because memories linger and you can’t change them because people starve, hurt, cry, feel pain because you’re ridiculed, stoned, hit, beaten because tomorrow may bring a bunch of flowers because waiting is significant though it may not seem because the city will stand long after you’re gone because three million words don’t change one action because one word is sometimes more than enough because criticism stings and praise goes ignored because balance is subjective, open to argument because the fool suffers in an angry cloud of smoke because theories are dispelled with a flick of the wrist because my left hand writes lines fast as you like because a measured footstep is a social statement because from tiny acorns grow massive oaks because this poem is mine it can say what it likes because a walk in the park clears the head because alcohol sends the doubts spiralling because, because, because, because… most recently 24.4.2010