Each Moment
I wrote the first line of this while I was watching Edwina Hayes perform in the Ship Inn. It is a philosophical poem.
We only have the moment. That is all. Our whole lives are but a glimpse at the panorama around us. We see it like a single frame of a film and yet courageously seek to work the whole plot and story.
Our optimism is truly remarkable and our achievements even more so.
For while the savage reverts are mindlessly destroying their own heritage in Palmira our fearless scientists are examining the heritage of the universe within a quark. They represent the two halves of humanity – the indoctrinated fools with blinkers and no questions and the wide-eyed enthusiasts for whom the universe is a mystery to be explored.
I have only questions and marvel to offer you!
Each Moment
Each moment is the first;
There are no rules
Only habits.
Each of us lives
In a universe
Only she inhabits.
We learn to make sense
Of the patterns
We discern
And flounder in the darkness
Of the colours
That we learn.
We follow my leader
As we grope
To understand
The universe of quarks
Is never
At our command.
We are fumbling through life
Making up
As we go along.
For a glimpse is all we have
And it
Will not last for long.
This moment has never been
And will never
Be again.
We see it for the first
Time in
This wonderful refrain.
We must live it now
For it will
Never come again.
It will never come again
The same.
Opher 1.9.2015
