The Value of Poetry
The Value of Poetry
Let’s say you’re getting old
By that I mean you feel it
as a sentence you’ve long denied
and most of the time
you want to rest
and lose 20lbs but you think
your will power’s never been that good
and you’ve always been a slave to desire
when just then you come across a poem
where a man who had lost weight
still had problems and
how Ebenezer Scrooge
learned Kindness
after a night of terror
and his life changed and
for all the rest of his days
he lived in Joy.
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Let’s say you’re getting old
By that I mean you feel it
as a sentence you’ve long denied
and most of the time
you want to rest
and lose 20lbs but you think
your will power’s never been that good
and you’ve always been a slave to desire
when just then you come across a poem
where a man who had lost weight
still had problems and
how Ebenezer Scrooge
learned Kindness
after a night of terror
and his life changed and
for all the rest of his days
he lived in Joy.
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