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500 Years Old

Imagine being 500 years old
seeing life come and go
would you be wise with what you know.

Fifty times wiser than you were at 10
is that how wise you would be than.

Or would you know it all at 202
if then there was nothing left to do.

Of course there would be moments
when you would say 'I've seen that before'
perhaps when near 300 or more.

Being 500 would be fun
but could you still blow out the candle
when you're 501.

Written by Rayn, 1990

  

 

 

 

More Poems by Rayn

What if today was tomorrow

What if today was tomorrow,
what is it that you would change?
What approach would you take,
what would you rearrange?
What if tomorrow was the next day?
and you knew you had a choice,
would you chose the same way?
knowing what you know today.

 

Lets turn it around.

What if you were he 
and he was me.
What if the man on the wall
was not there at all.

What if you were listening 
to what you do
but it was him doing it 
and he was you.

What if the point of contact
 has happened before,
and it was him not you 
they were asking for.

What if the doings were his 
and you were he,
could you understand him better 
if he was me.

 

Mesmerism

Mesmerism
the price we pay
mesmerized by ourselves each day.

Ritualism
the untidy play
the things we do
and the things we say.

Mysticism
the unworldly game.

Doingism
but nothing is done
when the feeling is for number one.

Mannerism
the way we behave
when given life
and become its slave.

Visionism
when what we see
is clouded by the things that be.

Creativism.

 

Written by Rayn, 1990