The 3 essentials

It would appear that for the author life has spiralled into three essentials:

1. Time - This always has and always will be. People and events came before, as they will after.

2. Life - Along this spectrum of time there is life. Different people live at different times, but this does not change the essentials.

3. Death - If life had to contain one truth this would be it. Everything that lives must die.

The purpose of this blog is to discuss the above memento mori issues in varying forms of art. The subject matter is hardly macabre, just a fact of life. Therefore battling to discover "truths" is just a valid concept as to "laugh". Perhaps not enough emphasis on life is focused on the latter.

O, life can be terrible until you die
pressure, whinge and whine
It was not until I smirked at death
that life suddenly injected a breath

I deliberately did not conform
bitter and twisted i walked
still that life continues
but now i analyse that stroll
funny arms and legs
wave around
chest beats hard
clothing on to protect the skin
from a world so harsh

i used to scorn at the cross
and all who followed
preached and prayed
until I looked how intricate
the artwork of a man
was here for evermore

i feel his pain, sweat and angst
not by an ethereal empathy syringe
but by the grooves in the wood
made by another human hand

and my tears shall flow
i cannot seem to hold them back
lack of every worthy attribute
in our society not the cause
but the beauty that surrounds me
in every shape and form
inspired by a saviour, nemesis and scorn

please do not forget
the noble stranger will not
learn from mistakes of times gone past
not from the rotting mouth
but the personal symbols, emblems
and inspirations of a wild bunch
ready to laugh at death

a little more intricate than a cross...