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To be or not to be that is a human question

 

 

“To be or not to be,” this is our daily question and decision.

It is nobler of mind to suffer the slings and arrows of our fellow man,

and to rise above them if we can.

 

For “to be” it seems not merely a simple question of ‘survival,’

but really a question of knowing, ‘what to be and who to be?’

and to be there for others whenever someone need us.

Be there for our neighbours / our Brothers / our Sisters / our Father and Mother.

 

For neither the animals and birds nor the fish of the sea,

raise this simple question ‘of the right to ‘just be.’

To simply question weather we have the right to be’ seems only,

the unfortunate lot of ‘humanity.’

 

So while we ask such foolish questions,

Let raise the steaks even higher and ask,

What should we be and who should we be instead,

and put that foolish old question of,

 

“to be or not to be” to bed.

 

© Written by Dominic John Gill www.poetry.net.au  31/3/99 dominicj7@poetry.net.au