Remonstrating against all memories and desires <br />Is the modern way; arrogant freedom beckons unless the body, <br />Unappeased by what should be done wants to follow another way <br />The body has its own burning hunger and it is not what all imagine <br />The body has its own destiny and desire and sway. <br /> <br />When pain and fever rack the physical sphere <br />When the brain follows its logic and the body its desire <br />And the spirit yearns for a fulfilling sun <br />Tell the body what should be done? <br /> <br />Reason and rationality are the lodestones of existence <br />And reason dictates our every sphere <br />But when reason flees, and leaves only illogicality behind <br />What 's to be done? Follow another sun? <br /> <br />The body has its identity and that is a personality <br />That walks and speaks with reasoning ease <br />Alas when that identity walks away and the personality flees <br />Is that the beginning of mortal disease? <br /> <br />Copyright 2008 Rani Turton<br /><br />Rani Turton<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/remembering-26/
