Life shouldn't be over-rated
or romanticised
this would only
have us later agonised

for we'd but have lived
through rose-tained eyes
where pain or suffering
would not arise

only with the march
of time,  to lament and realise
we'd self-deceived, believing
that there were an earthly paradise:

life we shouldn't over-rate
or romanticise
its bluntness , harshness
and sorrows we've to learn to recognise