Showing posts with label philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label philosophy. Show all posts

Thursday, July 5, 2018

get better in getting better


antibiotics for three, five
or even seven days as prescribed
cold tablets and some extra vitamin c
for a longer period

like other vitamins to build
my body constituents
but early rising and exercising
for twenty one days

to build a purpose filled life
and cultivate healthy habits
once this is achieved
still i cannot go to rest

if my goal is to become
a Japanese Sumo Wrestler
instead i must practice
constant kaizen

to remain a wrestler
daily wrestling
the world of decay
deterioration and death

henry victor      02.04.2007





Tuesday, July 25, 2017

nothing




nothing i regard with importance

to nothing that i am now a slave

gold i seek not, women i care not

triumph i prize not, kings too stir me not



collapse frightens me not, nor poverty

wealth and lust keep aging with time

leading, sure, to death before i die

teaching me i last longer than these



even eternity is beyond me to grasp

and i crave not for that nonentity

myself is, indeed, only lees and scum

and it’s not worth that careful caring



© henry victor     03.05.2003