In this life,
this life of grim uncertainties,
where morning is an archer
whose bow knows not where
its unsheathed arrows will fly
and afternoon is an afterthought
of noonday’s grandiose designs
and night, night sleeps, the day to rest
from labour, joy, success, distress—
In this life,
this life of grim uncertainties,
where after morning mirth,
evening mourns her plight
and her shades and shadows
are the secrets of the night
that daylight would rather forget—
the only certainties are uncertainty
and the certainty of death.
Copyright ©2001 by G. Newton V. Chance
- G. NEWTON V. CHANCE
- George Newton Vivian Chance (Trinidad and Tobago) -- member of the Poet Society of Trinidad and Tobago, http://poetssocietytt.blogspot.com/ and the World Poets Society, http://world-poets.blogspot.com/ -- born in Tobago on 3rd March 1957. While residing at Rio Claro was inspired to write over a hundred poems at the turn of the Millennium. Hobbies include playing wind instruments, building computers, observing nature, reading and writing poetry. Believes that the power of a song is in its ability to evoke emotions by the marriage of lyric and music but that music without lyric can be just as powerful, that lyric without music can also be just as powerful, that there is music in the lyric and that lyric can be simple yet profound. Also, in this the age of computers, would like to model his lines after simple and efficient code and, analogous to Object Oriented Programming, achieve most of his imagery from nouns and verbs, avoiding the bloat and excess of unnecessary adjectives. This is what he aspires to attain in his poetry.
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