Temptation and sorrow
Have marred many a talented tomorrow
Life s Paradox is that to truly enjoy it
you have to abstain from its pleasures
Touch but don’t grab
Sniff but don’t smell
Taste but don’t swallow
Bite but don’t eat
Be excited only with the boundaries
Of your cubicle, your ears, your fingers
It is a game and we don’t know who is playing us
But we play on, soldier on, shoulder on
Accept our limitations and our weakness with grace
Our bias our prejudices our preoccupation with taste
Instant gratification leads to distant falls
Nature burns for adequately thermo-stated halls
And we burn for our illusions
Preoccupied as we are with silly delusions
Of our own unique irreplacability
Look Ma, Ah can now manipulate my DNA
Mother laughs, still a child.
Will blunder and fall, before it learns to walk for a while.