and you asked this question <br />half-privately, half publicly, (so there's some hope then?) <br />but we, knowing alas your high intelligence, <br />must pause, reflect, before we answer you... <br /> <br />we could just say, in our severest tones - <br />that question comes from a nowhere, no-time place <br />where ignorance is loved, and knowledge is denied.. <br /> <br />I'd say, off the cuff, damn you, do just what you like... <br />you'll do that anyway.. <br /> <br />but if you want some words from me.. <br />(who knows the power of words, despite <br />all evidence to the contrary?) - <br />some words about what you already know... <br /> <br />I'd say, the answer's in the shortest word <br />inside your question - 'is': <br />that tiny window in our life <br />between the past - that which has shaped your 'is' - <br />and future - which your 'is' will make for you; <br /> <br />that tiny window, which the gift of life <br />(and what else do we know of this?) <br />offers you through all your lived-in life - <br />gift, to be free; of past and future; simply be, <br />live in a world of free unselfishness, <br />be anything and everything, be what you wish - <br />or better still, be what unsullied life <br />continually offers you out of the blue... <br /> <br />Or you could count your blessings - <br />think as Mark has written, just so beautifully, to you... <br />you'll do just what you do, when all things have been said <br />and all things written down in words - damn you - <br />though I for one believe you far from damned.. <br /> <br />I knocked upon your door - you didn't answer me; <br />so now I'm running round the back, <br />calling through that tiny window <br />of your very present life; and just to say, <br />you know yourself; know all the questions, all the answers; but <br />I'm here for you...and by the way, that ' I ' means we...<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/0005-what-is-there-to-live-for/
