Mindful or Mindless? A moot point
by david-r
Heart palpating
Mind is racing
Mouth is dry
With silent cry.
So I went to him, all nerves,
All jitters and all swerves,
Smiled awkward, feeling helpless,
Breathless 'n defenceless.
"Take a tablet," he said,
"You lack chemicals in your head,
Not your fault at all,
That's the way you were born."
So I took the pill
Went for the kill
Now my mind is dead
No happiness. No dread.
So which is better?
To live and fretter,
Be woebegone
Or an automaton?
To be or not to be
A feeling existentiality,
To be a soul with a goal,
But nerves out o' control ...
Or not to be myself,
But as a book on a shelf,
No feeling nor living
With constant misgiving?
To feel, to think,
Are God's gift to humanity,
I'd rather be a madman
Than a vegetable with sanity.