Life Tourists

Are we uncaused unwished for

intruders on earth unwelcomed

as visitors left to their own devices

dying and fighting every moment

in search of tokens

of glory fame and pride

which are used when we lie

in the hospital bed to be

carried away lest we infect the living?

 

If it is so, let it be so

if we are visitors on a tour of life

on this beautiful earth

let us enjoy what the world

show cases completing with nature

in momentary pride

we come here to write our own stories

to attract attention

of historians biased

and infected by private imagination.

 

But why think about records

footprints and memories

the album will lie here

dusted and yellow

let us simply live, enjoy

whatever comes fiesta, funeral

creative urges leading to

our tourist immortality.

 

We know we will return,

from where we came

we don’t know the address

but let us create new addresses

for the future tourists

in this monument of earthly eternity.