The past is long gone dead

So, why live in the past,

When we know from the very start

That, nothing’s meant to, ever, last.

Life’s a day and a night thing

The morning’s the one called Hope,

That’s what keeps us alive and kicking

And, helps us with Life, cope.

The larger picture’s all very well

But where do I fit in, I say,

That landscape’s pretty in a painting

But, I need the two meals a day

Square or otherwise, matters not

So long as body and soul are together,

It’s my life that I have to sustain

Can’t live it with hope pinned on a picture.

To each his/ her own was, perhaps, never truer

The present never more vibrant,

The past never more extinct

And never more, irrelevant.

Learn from history and the past

Was what was once propounded,

Philosophical thought’s all very good

But, the left the masses are only confounded.

Never mind history and the past

We seldom learn from our own mistakes,

Never mind what the ancestors did

Who ever learns from what another partakes.

You like coffee and I like tea

Where does choice come in,

Do what you wish and as you do

Remember, stepping on toes is also a sin.

Goodbye philosophy, goodbye sermon

It’s my life to live as I want till the end,

The world’s wise enough to take care of itself

I have my own garment to mend.

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