About Being

Being or not being,

Existence or no existence:

That is the fifty-fifty question,

The flip of the coin.

Everything is down to this –

Pure chance.

A celestial bet.

Yet can non-existence exist

Without existence?

Was it all inevitable?

Mathematical formulae

Beyond the mortal mind?

There may be some answer here,

To this cosmic riddle.

But it’s way above

My intellectual scope.

We can choose

Or grow

Our Gods

And hope for spiritual

Redemption.

But fully knowing

What it’s all about

May never be achieved

No matter how hard

We try.

All we can do is make the most

Of what Lady Luck

Has spawned

To us.

Thank Goodness

That we are here,

Take care of our world

And hope

That Life will last.

Paul Butters

© PB 24\5\2019.

Aqua

Our bright blue world

Shines across space

A beautiful beacon

That shouts

Life!

A sphere swathed in clouds

That when seen from the surface

Present endless shapes

Which change from minute to minute.

Shapes never the same thing twice

And on a misty, murky day

Totally formless.

Below these clouds and mists are further clouds:

Of leaves on lofty trees

And flocks of birds.

Swarms of insects

And dust storms in the desert.

But in the greater scheme of things

Ours is an ocean world

Bathed in water.

A Paradise of trees and grass

Dotted with a vast array

Of animal life.

A planet clothed in forest

And flowery meadows:

Providing oxygen for all who breathe.

So all I have to say

Today

Is please don’t cut those forests

Down.

Paul Butters

© PB 8\5\2019.

Feelings

(Picture Credit - Tenor)

Feelings of fear, anxiety and hate

Served us well

Back in ancient times

When sabre toothed tigers threatened.

Those adrenaline rushes

Meant that we survived

Through taking flight

Or standing to fight

Like demons.

But in modern times

When physical threats are rare

(Though still too many)

We must Avoid

Such negative emotions.

For Fear can make you

A rabbit in the headlights:

Chronically anxious and depressed.

Or it can turn you

Into a snarling animal,

Snapping at everyone.

On both Arrakis and Earth,

Fear is the mind-killer

And little-death,

To be faced down

And then forgotten.

For we must, I repeat, cast aside

These negative feelings

Of fear and hate.

Instead we need

To nurture

Every budding

Of Love

Joy

Excitement.

We must empathise,

Be compassionate

Sympathetic

And Loving.

Above all,

We must Love.

Paul Butters

© PB 13\4\2019.

How?

(Picture Credit - Quotefancy)

You are right my friend:

The World is full of evil,

Full of inequality

Poverty, crime and fraud.

Of endless cruelty by inhuman humans

Fuelled or fed by drugs

And a lust for Money.

Radicalised robots rampage everywhere,

All brainwashed and conditioned

By social media.

They slump over their mobiles,

Looking for Pokemons

And their next fix.

We know there has to be a better way.

But how can we re-educate

These seething masses?

How can we snap them out

Of their reverie,

Filled by Celebrity

And sugar?

I call myself a Lifist

And Humanist,

As I cherish Life in all its forms – except wasps!

And I Love People

In spite of all their wicked ways.

Love’s Power lingers in my heart.

But how do we get this message across?

In the good olde days

Religions ruled

Through Fear of Hell

And worse.

For Science has changed all that.

People no longer Believe

In Anything

Except Money

And Power.

All You Need is Love

Is what John Lennon said.

So why are we waiting

For people to listen?

Such a simple message

That you know is right:

Love Life.

Paul Butters

© PB 10\4\2019.