Life is… a paradox
A contradiction
Like a pair o’ ducks
Yeah, like a pair o’ ducks.
We go with the flow
Meandering along
Going whichever way it goes;
Go with the flow
Go with the crowd
Or travel down… the “road less travelled”
Breaking new ground
Daring to be different!
A paradox…
Life makes it easy to go with the flow
But challenges us to struggle upstream
To see what’s there;
Coming out on the other side
To stand alone…
Or tread the murky waters… alone
Lonely or… fulfilled?
Life is a paradigm
A pair o’ dimes.
We flip
Heads you win, tails you win
We learn to make the shift of how we see
Of how we be
We give to get
But only get when we freely give;
We play at work, wasting time, stealing time
When our work could be – our play;
Play that’s fulfilling, satisfying, gratifying
Like a love affair…
Can’t wait to see you
To be with you
To work at making work our love
And love our work,
Our play…each day.
The struggle becomes the catalyst
For freedom to be who we want to be
And then it’s fun,
We’re free, carefree!
Just free to be…
Like a pair o’ ducks
Enjoying the moment…Gliding along
Releasing then
Mass-a-ging our doubts,
our ambivalence about the pair ‘o dimes we hold;
Yet tossing them, straddled by our dreams, up high
To the one up there who is looking out for I and I…
Reaching beyond our limited reach.
knowing that
Tails we win, heads we win
The paradigm…
Yes, life is a paradox
A contradiction.
Let’s trust ourselves to claim the paradigm
And live our lives ready to die for a life
In which we really enjoy
The paradox of life!
© Dr. Oluwakemi M Linda Banks “Let Whatever Be” 2016.