Hic et Nunc

Distractions never ending

One contingency or another

“Reasons” for evading life

Choosing various social manipulations

Awaiting directions, instead

As if meaning may fall like manna from heaven

This way, or

That

Wow, a new one, yet there will be newer

Best, but something could be better

Want socially transformed into need

How many miss a life entire

By virtue of deferring their search for 

Identity

Significance

Their very sense of Self

Perpetually awaiting the next trend

The T.O.E. of what one should be

Secure in their knowledge that conditions will be someday

Be perfectly aligned for the living of life

Meanwhile, life passes them by

One cannot help but to think their last thought

Must have been

Life could have been something worth the effort

If only, I had stopped for a minute to

Lend some attention to the…

                                          …HERE AND NOW

©5/31/12