When I first heard the word
existential
I thought “Ooh that’s posh
perhaps I’ll pepper it in conversations,
Bosh! and figure out later
what it means.”
Twonk I was, I only slowly
saw the word existence hidden
in the cleverness of syllables
and then I thought I got it
But not until a maw
began to daily swallow
more than a thousand souls
of families and carers,
teachers, truckers, nurses,
loved
did I become aware
And I was scared.
Not just life being lost
but existence
the whole ****** swirl and fanfare
of little faffs and laughing drunken,
first chuckles, first kisses, first footsteps,
Sunday roasts, broken hearts and ecstasies
The nail-clutch of my anxiety
floored me
but underneath an ember burned
and a fire-question unfurled and grew:
How did we let this be?
Jan 23, 2021
Jan 23, 2021 at 3:22 AM UTC
When I first heard the word
existential
I thought “Ooh that’s posh
perhaps I’ll pepper it in conversations,
Bosh! and figure out later
what it means.”
Twonk I was, I only slowly
saw the word existence hidden
in the cleverness of syllables
and then I thought I got it
But not until a maw
began to daily swallow
more than a thousand souls
of families and carers,
teachers, truckers, nurses,
loved
did I become aware
And I was scared.
Not just life being lost
but existence
the whole ****** swirl and fanfare
of little faffs and laughing drunken,
first chuckles, first kisses, first footsteps,
Sunday roasts, broken hearts and ecstasies
The nail-clutch of my anxiety
floored me
but underneath an ember burned
and a fire-question unfurled and grew:
How did we let this be?
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