Life Is A Short Journey, Live It

Nazio Vella
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"You work 8 hours to live 4.
You work 6 days to enjoy 1.
You work 8 hours to eat in 15 minutes.
You work 8 hours of sleep 5.
You work all year just to take a week or two vacation.
You work all your life to retire in old age.
And contemplate only your last breaths.
Eventually you realize that life is nothing but a parody of yourself practicing your own oblivion.
We have become so accustomed to material and social slavery that we no longer see the chains.. "
Life is a short journey, live it!

 

it was long ago
and, it was far away
august of 1967
that first, i heard this tune

when i am old,
and, losing my hair ?
when i am 64,
the lp sang !!!

We set our lives
to music, it seems
A song by The Beatles
Memories, of my 9th year

so, life, it unravels
slave 8, of 24
bathroom 1, of 24
errands 1, of 24
laundry 1, of 24
cooking 1, of 24
sleeping 8, of 24
traveling 2, of 24
and, 2 to goof off !!!

we work for 8
get paid for 4-6
the gov't gets 4-6
and, didn';t do squat

we work 5 days
to get 2 days away
but, when we get home
the 'real' work begins

we work 50 weeks
during a year
to get 2 weeks off
for a trip, it seems

sometimes, not knowing
sometimes, not caring
sometimes, so exhausted
we lose track, of why we are doig it

our minds, are so tired
our hearts, are pounded by hurts
makes me wonder, indeed,
why do we bother ???

~susan lynne schwenger
(under edit)