'Nonsensical Phenomenon 25/10/09 Poem by Margaret Alice

Opened a bottle of Port, Allesverloren,
translated as Everything Lost, forgiving
myself for coming to earth as an evil spirit,
enthusiastic support for hubby’s exotic
dish until I tasted once too much

Gone the rapport we strived to reach, gone
the false friendship – How dare you go on
tasting, I want to present exquisitely, you
are thwarting my goals - wish I could throw
him and his dish into the sea, smiling

I am sorry, will not come near it again, realizing
it is impossible to please other people, some hate
the Torah, some hate creative writing; some hate
both, life is a nonsensical phenomenon, the only
thing to control is myself

I am going to read a fairytale and be sensible about
life – it is the biggest waste of everything there has
ever been, Terry Pratchett complains the gods do
not hear prayers – how wrong he is, Adolf Hitler’s
prayers were all heard and fulfilled

Because they were backed by the contemporary
European culture of Hitler’s age – only then did
praying Christians realize how loveless and
dangerous anti-Semitism and racism was,
how else could mankind learn…