As it is
An oddity exists
that people cannot but inveigh against everything
or consider the beauty in something
or abstain from criticism
So as they chastise,
they may also seek to enveigle
or protest harshly within and without
very few people know how to just let things be
However, one must suppose
an action as radical as that
may set the world up
with a consort of hurt and disaster
Therefore it makes sense
that everything is as it is
for it serves good and brings bad
we cannot be rid of anything for that
This is as most things are
still necessary for life to be
in excess ever so damaging
as cold and heat is to deciduous leaves
Decide then, we must,
who we shall be
of honor, patience, or virtue,
whether or not they say no such thing exists
Hope lives on
we must have it
even as the entire world
and our logic cries otherwise
Hence, scroll down your feed
eyes blind to toxic things
edification is what we seek
not riling up of emotions
Certainly, distractions must be out of the picture
as must be guilt shame and disgrace
then we run our race
all the way to the finish line
hoping that surely we will reach
our destiny, destinations, and destined dreams
An 'even so'
in a terribly odd world.
©2020 by Ayo Okikiolu.
Context:
I thought to write a poem to describe things as they are. Hence, "As it is".
