Values

 

(Gandalf via Google)

 In my late teens I would wonder

What is The Purpose of Life?

What should I Value?

What is truly Good?

But now at sixty six it seems so clear:

Life per se is what matters.

The wonderment

Of selves

That know they are selves.

Of sentience married with intelligence.

The miracle we call Life.

At nineteen I said

That the First Priority

Was Survival.

I wrote a thing called “The Bedrock”

To grow this theme.

And what was it that had to survive?

It was living beings

Nurtured by Mother Nature.

I am a “Lifist”

If you will:

Cherishing all that lives.

Humanist Plus

And more than Conservation.

Health and Wellbeing

For The Common Good.

A touch of Socialism

And Equal “Opps”.

I coined the word “Positivism”

To sum it all up.

Is this all poetry?

Maybe not.

But the greatest poem lies all around us:

The very world and universe

In which we live.

Paul Butters

© PB 18\2\2019.