Now

Why cloud certain happiness today

with probable misery tomorrow?

One day she might leave,

but today she loves thee.

Thunderbolts and firestorms,

the whole of nature’s fury

can’t take that from you

for such is providence’s will.

DIVISION OF THE UNIVERSE

Such was the universe divided,

the gods took eternity

all we got was now;

The heartbreak of love lost,

The joy of sunsets shared,

The pain of child birth,

Raptures of happiness from a baby’s smile.

How short our lives are,

Yet so much to remember.

A kaleidoscope of emotions,

The sensations of feeling.

Knowing we might not be tomorrow,

The roses smelt so much sweeter;

Little things lost in the expanse of time,

But exaggerated in the face of mortality

Perhaps forever was a bad deal,

I think maybe the gods envy me.

THE JUST LADY

A comical sight she cut,

The blind lady and her scale;

Yet not a snicker was heard,

Because behind her velvet robe,

Stood the powerful men she served.

 

She said she saw all,

Yet we knew she was blind.

Why did she carry a sword,

Yet she said she was kind?

Empowered by a social pact.

 

The will of those with strength

And the law to those without.

Like the ladies of the night,

She favoured men of might

The rest of us forced to call her just.