I hate politics. This isn’t a political post. The reason I hate politics is that politics piss me off. I just want to be left alone.
Anywho. Tonight a wrote a letter to my elected officials concerning the current healthcare legislation. It left me irritated, disappointed, and a little sad. When I get in to this sort of dark state my mind is like adrowning man and it flounders around grabbing on to every thought , and doing to them what drowning men do to the folk who try to save them.
Well tonight I latched on to an occurrence from a few years ago. This poem is from my forth coming book it’s the only poem in the book, and it’s my favorite poem that I have written. Probably because it is personal and written about things that are important, not politics. I’ve never told anyone that this was actually written seperate from the book, which is weird, but I’ve found this blog to be a good way to clear my head. In life there is joy and sorrow and many times they overlap and in the resulting confusion we sometimes lose ourselves. Maybe this will help. It helped me.
Rejoice
You can spend your time sighing and waste your life crying
with grief for the dying and dead.
But open your eyes and dispense with the sighs
it’s the living with which you should tread
That path through the dark, that is so cold and so stark
is so only for those who have breath,
because the soul in death finds light and breath
on the road that for them is not dark.
So save your grief for sinner and thief
for they can benefit still,
and live your life through pain and strife
as the dead who were living would will.
For life is worth living and love is for giving,
so give as the living should give,
and rejoice, rejoice with resoundant voice
for those who are living still live.