Inasmuch Blog 11

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Inasmuch

 

Inasmuch as this world rotates,

This life we know shall flourish.

Embracing thoughts that tempt our fate,

As our minds we seek to nourish.

Inasmuch as we deny our envy,

Our egos we seek to cherish.

And in embers of ash

Our morals crash,

In plumes of lies they perish.

Inasmuch as our hearts doth beat

To the rhythm of our souls,

I ponder if life on the edge of a knife,

Is full or filled with holes.

Inasmuch as we ought not to tarnish

An image our peers expect,

We stoke the fire of self-desire,

Knowing not that which comes next.

Inasmuch as we claim to care,

Our world in decay astounds us.

Once pristine, unfettered and clean,

Unlike that which now surrounds us.

Inasmuch as we tend to believe

That man controls his fate,

His hold on life

Is fraught with strife,

With our Creator we cannot equate.

Inasmuch as trouble and woe

Do sometimes stunt our quest to grow,

Into this life we’re thrust with dreams,

And hopes of reaching stars that seem

To move each time they glow.  



~ By Q-Squared


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