Values

In my late teens I would wonder What is The Purpose of Life? What should I Value? What is truly Good? But now at sixty six it seems so clear: Life per se is what matters. The wonderment Of selves That know they are selves. Of sentience married with intelligence. The miracle we call Life. At nineteen I said That the First Priority Was Survival. I wrote a thing called “The Bedrock” To grow this theme. And what was it that had to survive? It was living beings Nurtured by Mother Nature. I am a “Lifist” If you will: Cherishing all that lives. Humanist Plus And more than Conservation. Health and Wellbeing For The Common Good. A touch of Socialism And Equal “Opps”. I coined the word “Positivism” To sum it all up. Is this all poetry? Maybe not. But the greatest poem lies all around us: The very world and universe In which we live. Paul Butters © PB 18\2\2019.

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