There should be secrets
For us to ponder
to worry about.
Not everything need be known
like how we got here
on this island Earth,
Why God put us here,
the point of suffering,
of brain tumors, cancer?
why some people sail through life
while others ….
What’s it all about, Alfie?
Like the house across the street.
Who lived there? Why did they go?
Why has it been left to ruin?
I could ask the guy raking the leaves
in the house next door
but if I knew, I couldn’t ponder.
There should be secrets.
There should be secrets.
John Malone 
Indeed! And if everything was perfect, I would have nothing to whinge about! 🙂. I think you’re onto something.
But truly, it is nice to ponder things. Like why don’t I ever write proper letters anymore? Such a sad thing to lose. And if I don’t write them, how can I hope to receive them?
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Lol; there would be fewer poems written , Worms, songs too if we knew the purpose and origin of everything: the great ontological questions — and regarding letters I can hear my mother saying, why should I phone them? They can phone me 🙂
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I had a particularly ponderous,
and rather periphrastic, quote
from our good friend, Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, to
share with you John … but
after reading you elegantly
succinct poem I’ve thought
better of it 🤔
“And above all, watch with glittering
eyes the whole world around you
because the greatest secrets are
always hidden in the most unlikely
places. Those who don’t believe in
magic will never find it.”
~ Roald Dahl
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thank you for sparing us the Longfellow quote, David , but the one from Dahl is truly, well, true — and well worth a ponder: ‘the greatest secrets hiddeb in the most unlikely places’; magical! the old unkempt, unloved house on the corner prompted this poem 🙂
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I apologize for ruining your ruminations John, but The Hokey Cokey is what it’s all about, apparently! 🙂
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Lol ; thanks Hobbo, I revisited this little classic and did indeed imbibe some wisdom esp that relating to the therapeutic value of certain body movements 🙂
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🤣 It’s all about sharing John!
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you’re right, Hobbo: I have come to that realization myself. slowly, slowly —
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👍🙂
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Love how you elegantly put life into perspective. What if you have to live trough all “what ifs”.
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thanks Ulle; elegance is a trait I admire in others and am surprised when it appears in myself 🙂
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I love this. And agree 100%.
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I agree John, not everything needs to be out in the open. Discretion and subtlety are important. Before the days of social media, people didn’t need to know everything. We still don’t, but access is so much easier.
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secrets have their important place in life
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Beautifully expressed, John.
Some things should be left untouched. No thoughts or actions should try to reveal it. Let it simmer in our minds and hearts. 🙂
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there will always be mysteries; the more we know reveals the more we don’t know —
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Well said, John. 🙂
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Well said — as usual, John. Acceptance is the key for a peace of mind in a world of secrets!
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true: there is only so much we can ever know ; the world is very jealous of its secrets 🙂
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Interesting! I think that whether or not these “should” be secrets, that they will remain mysteries regardless
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the pandemic is a case in point: as soon as we find a vaccine for the virus, it produces variants: always one or two steps ahead but we are moving in 🙂
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