We Are in a Likeness of Inuit People: A Poem With Message
Val enjoys writing his own style of what resembles poetry, just hoping to catch someone's heart on the same page.
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
-- Maya Angelou
In that vast land white 'n frozen
live Inuit people their simple lives
polar bear's habitat also their chosen
where nothing blooms or ever thrives.
They know about places of lush vegetation
with flowers and palm trees and short sleeves
but none of those attractions can break habituation
of some ingrained preferences and inherited beliefs.
Doesn't that remind of so many of us chronic losers
having heard of happiness, harmony and peace
but playing some stubborn and bad choosers
opting for a stuckness, as if out of caprice.
Our habitat is glass and concrete desert
so we thrive in our own selected void
with best hunting skills we can exert
enjoying it, but mostly annoyed.
So we are like those Inuit -- just in our own way
one kind of desert not making other less lonely
and even when we migrate, then again we stay
soon degrading novelty into a habitat ours only.
As if allergic to change, routine is our game
we call it "comfort zone" , comfortable or not
shunning the unfamiliar, thriving on the same
not asking for more of life than we have got.
© 2022 Val Karas
