Saturday, 2 January 2016

Not a fun poem

Life is full of beauty
But it’s not full
For most of us
It is not even real beauty

Life is full of music
Which someone wrote a long time ago
But in our own souls
Mostly noise and emptiness

Life is full of joy
Cheap and abrupt
It comes from substance
Whether alcohol, fashion or ideology

Our forefathers
Had a valley, lake and forest
Had a church, an icon and war service

And the rest was God’s grace