8 May 2012

The madness of life


Life's infancy is delivered with a long-lasting magical madness
dissolving to reveal a fog of portent adolescent angst
supplanted by love and laughter collapsing into
the craziness of family life or singularity of
batchelordom all to diffuse their light
across a blur of middle-age spread
reduced in the twilight of years
where age-related conditions 
eat holes in the brain and 
at the end of the day 
the only sane thing 
to do is to
die
.

2 comments:

Elisabeth said...

Put very succinctly Toby - also like the concrete aspect of it. On the subject of dying, I think I'd be more of a 'rage, rage against the dying of the light' type myself.

corbat said...

Thanks Elizabeth. Perhaps I should have called it 'the futility of life'? Not that life is futile but as someone else commented in another thread, 'life is just an interruption to my continual nonexistence'.