[OC] [FB] Beep Beep Mortality Bus
We drove ourselves across the cliff
into the air some time ago.
Now we tumble on and down;
is there a bottom? I don't know.
At times we dash upon the rocks
and some of us get ripped apart,
but we remain and chide our selves
To carry on and take some heart:
we wouldn't be here for no reason;
times are hard but for a season!
Once we get our bearings straight
we'll be all right, so just you wait.
And then we take another blow,
and more friends die, and we slip low,
and one day maybe it'll end
for one or all. I guess til then
I'll hold on tight to who is near
and brace us 'gainst that mortal fear.
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd - Sir Walter Raleigh
If all the world and love were young,
And truth in every Shepherd’s tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move,
To live with thee, and be thy love.
Time drives the flocks from field to fold,
When Rivers rage and Rocks grow cold,
And Philomel becometh dumb,
The rest complains of cares to come.
The flowers do fade, and wanton fields,
To wayward winter reckoning yields,
A honey tongue, a heart of gall,
Is fancy’s spring, but sorrow’s fall.
Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of Roses,
Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies
Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten:
In folly ripe, in reason rotten.
Thy belt of straw and Ivy buds,
The Coral clasps and amber studs,
All these in me no means can move
To come to thee and be thy love.
But could youth last, and love still breed,
Had joys no date, nor age no need,
Then these delights my mind might move
To live with thee, and be thy love.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44939/the-nymphs-reply-to-the-shepherdOpen linkView original on lemmy.world