It is what it is. "It is Life, Jim, but not as we know it"




SO BE IT



Expectation is influenced by mood,
And mood is influenced by experience.
The expected destination in life
Is as unpredictable as death -
Which is actually very predictable.
It has occured to me that the place
Where I have awoken this day
May not be where I expected it to be
And yet in some convaluted way
Is as good a place as might be
And yesterday was only a posibility-
One of an infinite number-
Just not the one I expected.
So be it.

© Griffonner 2025





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Written on 2025-06-28 at 09:32

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D G Moody The PoetBay support member heart!
This reminds me of my old Buddhist teacher, who said: "Yesterday is past, tomorrow is unknown, now is the knowing", or words to that effect. Another thoughtful poem Allen.
2025-07-03


one trick pony The PoetBay support member heart!
Allen, you write of expectation and experience, the common factor being mood. Your poem reminds of a short story by Hagiwara Sakutarō called, “Cat Town," written in 1935.

In the story a man, representing everyman, goes out for a stroll, only to find himself disoriented. Though he has walked this way countless times before he finds himself somewhere where he has never been, and never knew existed, which seems to me to be very much what your poem is about, at least in part. In your poem you seem content to be in “today,” which is “as good as it might be,” even if it is somehow, in some “convoluted way” not where you expected to be.

In the short story, well, I won’t reveal the ending just in case you want to read it.
2025-07-01


one trick pony The PoetBay support member heart!
Your epigram could have been words from Huck to Jim
2025-06-29