What Will You Do In Arrogance Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

What will you do in arrogance
Today?
You are wealthy, powerful, and
Do your will
Your will’s your way
As you stand round in the armchair
That turns.
You think not at this time
Of cemeteries
Of the quiet graves, the birds
That sing and how in the morn
When all us humans wake
The inhabitants fade in sleep.
You do not want to think.
To think of this.
Below
The tomb-stones lies
Truncated an immortality
But immortality befits the less
The wealthy and the arrogant
But mostly those who know
What misery is and gone
Through all the trammels of
A sacrifice.
You smile at this and smile
Sardonically.
That be
One reason why I suspended
The long, long voyage to immortality
Some years ago, and slowed
My pace.
For
You think not at this time
Of cemeteries
Of the quiet graves, the birds
That sing and how in the morn
When all us humans wake
The inhabitants fade in sleep.
You do not want to think.