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Right now I’m alive For now. How long will I thrive? Don’t know. For most of Eternity I’ll be dead. Such is Mortality It’s said. Let me meditate on that. Let me contemplate the moment. Sitting on my mat Dreaming a romant. Yes I’m alive Of that I’ve no doubt. But where’s my drive? I must have a scout… Been to Tenerife and Malta Scotland and Wales. Never Gibraltar, Few travelling tales. But I’m not a roamer, Rather stay at home. Yes ever the homer, And often alone. My laptop and telly Are all that I need. Give me Keats and Shelley For a good read. So it’s right in the Now I really must stay No why, who or how To darken my day. No thoughts of the past Or dreams of the future. Make each second last, Turn off that computer. This moment has gone, Now that you’re reading. Let’s have another one, That’s where I’m leading. For now never lasts, That we all know. It’s lost in our pasts, No longer on show. I try here to paint What has been and gone. An attempt to create The eternal song. Paul Butters
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Dec 11, 2015
Dec 11, 2015 at 12:50 PM UTC
This Moment
Right now I’m alive For now. How long will I thrive? Don’t know. For most of Eternity I’ll be dead. Such is Mortality It’s said. Let me meditate on that. Let me contemplate the moment. Sitting on my mat Dreaming a romant. Yes I’m alive Of that I’ve no doubt. But where’s my drive? I must have a scout… Been to Tenerife and Malta Scotland and Wales. Never Gibraltar, Few travelling tales. But I’m not a roamer, Rather stay at home. Yes ever the homer, And often alone. My laptop and telly Are all that I need. Give me Keats and Shelley For a good read. So it’s right in the Now I really must stay No why, who or how To darken my day. No thoughts of the past Or dreams of the future. Make each second last, Turn off that computer. This moment has gone, Now that you’re reading. Let’s have another one, That’s where I’m leading. For now never lasts, That we all know. It’s lost in our pasts, No longer on show. I try here to paint What has been and gone. An attempt to create The eternal song. Paul Butters
The lads have gone and I'm left alone in the pub for a few minutes....
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Dec 11, 2015
Dec 11, 2015 at 12:50 PM UTC
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