The Bare Infinitive and the Meaning of Life

THE BARE INFINITIVE Look: up above the stratosphere Outside the earth's blanket veneer Beyond planets stars and galaxy Past even faintest nebulae Far from the pull of gravity Free of Dark Matter's hidden vector In existential cavity Untied to any spacial sector All human weakness risen above In solo freedom primitive Beyond the bonds of hate or love There sits the Bare Infinitive No cares nor problems, fears nor pains But there's one question that remains From Liberty, took a blessed kiss? Or to false seductive promise succumb Is he in sublime unfettered bliss? Or formless, endless tedium COROLLARY - The Meaning of Life So perforce the very asking of the question May reveal the answer to that greater plea Why suffer slings and arrows, pains, anguish, oppression When we might, by NOT opposing, be set free The gloomy prince omitted consequence unsaid In agonising on the walls of Elsinore Endless nothingness holds nought for us but dread Perchance to dream preferred to void; that we abhor Thus life’s meaning may be: to be within a life Then if we also have a purpose vied with strife Result: interest, time, curiosity, interaction and aim Or the elements of what we call: A Game. Lest you think this demeans Creation to mere caprice Then observe to be the player, not the piece. 24 May 2019