Ask For Less Whilst You Can

What we believe as how life should be
always depends on the first impressions
that replace what was intended to happen, 
where we see shadow of a life that was there.

The more we live on these sloppy seconds,
occasionally glimpsing what should have been,
the less we have to worry about leading parodies
of the lives that we were meant to live,
where promise becomes more and more the script
of what could not be delivered until we tire
of the latest salesmen's rattle bag of stale tricks.

Ask for less whilst you can.

From glory to parody
is a shorter journey than we think.
Only by promising ourselves less
can deliver we deliver each other a life
that leans towards a sustainable sufficiency.