Act II

Memory or Death

Reminiscence is another way

To live one’s life

To the full

To its best

Least painfully.

And loneliness is the way

To safely store in memory

What the clamour of things

Sweeps towards oblivion.

You have to let go one side

To hang on to the other.

From what is reborn from day to day

We fashion a new life

And time drifts by and dreams drift by

We journey only in ourselves.

 

A warning:

Let not sorrows distract you.

Let not emptiness dazzle you.

It is always by some oversight

That we lose life.