But Then I...

By Donna Holmes, May, 2015.

Life is insignificant
Beyond meaning, without reason
Up against geology
Our candle flame's a flickin'

Time is an illusion
Fleeting moments standing still
The universe just.. IS
Every 'why?' a total nil

But then I...
Look at the colours bright, gaze at the starry night
Study each detail small, simply wonder at it all
Life is love and cats and soup and dogs
Life is myth and wine and truth and frogs
And then there's music
And there are fingers
See my fingers making music
Life is story, life is song

Remember that dusty story
Some famous guy once told
About that little bird a'peckin'
At the mountain very old

Infinity is crazy
Next to it we don't exist
We're just shadows in the darkness
Gritting teeth and balling fists

But then I...
Hear the little children laugh, see an elephant take a bath
Gape amazed at urban heights, watch in daze as they take flight
Life is flowers and comics and tea and art
Life is towers and conversations in parks
And then there's shelter
And there are raindrops
Share my shelter from the raindrops
Life is sharing, life is heart.