Life, In a Lifeboat
“Life in a Lifeboat”
Some rant of thirst and death
Some suffer in solitary silence
Some drink the waves and grow delirious
Some dream of rainwater and a cool wind
You ask, ‘Why should we care:
All will end up
as sordid, decaying flesh
floating on the vast, deep, blue, empty swells?’
Do not rue our all-too-tiny time to live.
Let not harsh reason over-shadow the mystery of life.
For if this fragile body be the very whole life,
then we were born to fill this sacred moment, now,
with harmony and grace;
And find a space between heaven and here
where our snowflake selves can briefly thrive.
That, when nightfall does surely follow,
The world is better left.
© GILES SCOTT (2016)
Copyright © Giles Scott | Year Posted 2016
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