The Bare Facts of Moment-Matter

 

PAD Challenge day 5: For today’s prompt, write an intelligence poem.

“We cannot choose our external circumstances, 

...but we can always choose how we respond to them” 

Epictetus 

In this buffet of day-to day and choices that we make

We reap or bear the consequence of that which we partake

And though ‘looking won’t hurt us’ as the olden adage quips

Nor will grand gazing help us to enjoy the benefits

…and what perhaps we scoffed a bit with youth’s intelligence

When we thought life was bigger than its flicker of intents

Hits us hard with the truth we were forewarned about by peers

How, how we use mere moments is the dividend of years

The bare fact of the matter in the matter of tick-tock

Is a subtle undoing that can come as quite a shock

As what we once considered 'stuff' of little consequence

Gathers the fluff of moments into rightful recompense

© Janet Martin

Three more scoops of vegetable soup, I encourage as she eyes the 'dessert'. 

(because 'eat your vegetables' matters!😋