New poem: "The Squandered Life"

 

The Squandered Life

 

“The unexamined life is not worth living,”

said the “gadfly” of Athens, who found

a way out of that fabled cave of shadows

and reflections that has puzzled the world;

but the older I get, with much more life

under my belt, the more I’m led to believe

that this postmodern world of endless

consumer pleasure keeps our soul trapped

in the fabled cave of shadows and reflections,

and not until we stop to examine our life

of endless consumer pleasure will we realize,

as Socrates implied, that the squandered

life is not worth living.

 

Composed in Tiny Beaches,

Georgian Bay, Southcentral, Ontario

Monday, September 30, 2024