Merry detriment

We live life to our merry detriment

this is our entire predicament.

We want what we shouldn’t

and do what we oughtn’t

giving little thought to consequences

and caring not about the hindrances

we lay in the path for others

who look up to us as older brothers

who should know better, but care not

that the things we sow is only rot

without any sense of decency

or the things that really ought to be.

We search for joy and jubilee

unencumbered by the misery

we leave in our wake as we tread on

over the heads of another man’s son.

What is it to us if they couldn’t keep up?

We can hardly be blamed for their handicap.

We joyfully dance and sing to a tune

carried to us from over a dune,

we dance and we sing without a care,

happy and blissfully unaware

that the flute-player hails from Hameln

and that we’re on our way to destruction.

We live life to our merry detriment

this is our entire predicament.

An original poem by Miekie (Marietjie Uys).

'n Oorspronklike gedig deur Miekie (Marietjie Uys).

Marietjie Uys (Miekie) is a published author. You can buy my books here:
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