Contemplating Our Reason Poem by Dave Alan Walker

Contemplating Our Reason

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Late in the evening
I contemplate my reason
my reason for living
my reason for being

In a world of fairy tales
and violence, miscarriages of justice
and lies
what do we get out of our lives

Are we just waiting for the changes
to work through the lies
or will we be forever
contemplating our reason

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Smoky Hoss 22 December 2012

I have felt this, often; you have here expressed it well (for many of us I am certain) . I believe it is good we seek the reason, otherwise how would we ever even begin to find it. Good, very good words Dave.

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Kevin Patrick 20 December 2012

I don’t want to know what kind of day you were having when you wrote this, but I doubt it was on a beach in the Virgin Islands. Reason is the only thing we have to stop being animals, like you wrote there is violence and miscarriage of justice, but inevitably their will always come some good somewhere in the world. What you write is equal bouts poetry equal bouts philosophy and its this I enjoy. Contemplate reason, comes to all of us, my job is trying to use it

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Stan Petrovich 22 November 2012

Presently depressed I too been have been contemplating the meaninglessness of existence; the nihilism was overwhelming until I saw a ruffled yellow bird skittering about foor a bug way too big. All was then well with the universe!

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Valerie Dohren 17 November 2012

Life seems to become ever more complicated and difficult - I think the answers lie within rather than outside of ourselves, we just need to contemplate upon our reason for living as you suggest in your poem.

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