Poets, Philosophers, And Songs We’ve Heard

 

I came across some homeless drunks

Living on the rocks

At the edge of the ocean,

I asked them if they could say

How they came to be this way…

Poets, philosophers, and songs we’ve heard

One elderly man replied,

Once you come to realize

There are no answers

Why bother with the questions.

Some guy wrote

About truth and beauty,

Another sang about how everything

Is beautiful and those Beatle dudes

About all you need is love,

Well the truth is

The more I drink

The more beauty I see

The more love I get,

Especially from those

Everyone else rejected.

See this dog,

Never had a collar

Never been tied,

Once you come to know

There is the same as here

Why go anywhere.

You see, this box of Cracker Jack

Ain’t got no plastic prize.

So, Mr. asking questions,

May I ask if you can you say

Why you came to be this way?

 

Stephen Nesbitt©

 

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