Monday, October 26, 2009

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ca. 1995

To smoke a couple of cigarettes a day
To make my day a little bit more worthwhile
To chase those tints of blues away
To use them as paint for my vintage car
To smile at some girl who deserves some damn thing
To read my niece children's books
To read to myself thoughts of, well, about anything
To make life a little bit more worthwhile

To love, to give, to run
To see, to think, to talk
To make, to find
To live, ah, to live.

Life sometimes doesn't quite make sense, does it?
With all its frailties and illogical patterns
Life is a series of infinite possibilities
With only finite time to exist

So what, when, how can this seemingly
Chaotic "life-ology" be any better?
What, when, how can our scientific minds
Produse satisfactory results?
What, when, how can we make such feasible experiments
That in the end our psychoanalytic minds would
Conclude a success! and would thus transmit this information
To our hearts that it too can rest?

Ah, but a fool can only live once
And a mad scientist can never find that secret formula
In the end, we are but a void and then
Nothing can already change

But until then, we have to our disposal
Infinite possibilities of change
Infinite possibilities of enjoying life
To make life a little bit more worthwhile

So let us not waste our precious time
Seeking answers which can never be found
Wanting only those things
That can never be ours

So let's love, let's give, let's run
Let's see together, let's think together
Let's offer each other life as we know it
And after, assure ourselves this is life
And everything in it.
For in the end, fools and wise laugh together
In the end, they both agree

That what we can only do in this world is
To enjoy it and cherish what we have and
Pass it on to whoever wants a piece of it.


(Posting this as promised. I wrote this way back in the 90s. It was the view I took then. I may not agree with some of the things now, but in a lot of ways, I have not departed much from him).

5 Comments:

At 6:49 AM, Anonymous graziella said...

Is this the poem? It's very well in line with the song. Very true. I agree to most of it ( I think everything naman ). :)

 
At 10:52 PM, Blogger kauban said...

yes. you reminded me of this poem when you told me about the song. good thing nakita mo ang similarity. hehe. medyo similar na hindi kasi eh.

 
At 10:20 AM, Anonymous pablita said...

I love this =

"So let's love, let's give, let's run
Let's see together, let's think together
Let's offer each other life as we know it
And after, assure ourselves this is life
And everything in it.
For in the end, fools and wise laugh together
In the end, they both agree"

 
At 12:54 AM, Blogger kauban said...

ayaw mo nung "smoking cigarettes a day?" hehe.

 
At 9:41 PM, Anonymous pablita said...

smoking? bad yun, emphysema or Lung CA abutin mo after a while. the only smoked thing I like, is Tinapang bangus :P

 

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