Senseless Frenzy Poem by Philo Poesie

Go ahead

keep up the frenzy

completely out of breath

you sink onto your deathbed

And don't come to me then

with desperate lamentations

about all those lost years

with pleading and begging

for a little reprieve

You would devote your life

to the muse from now on

if only you were granted

a few more days

Remember

for sacks full of gold and silver

you squandered your lifetime

but now, what a contradiction

you would squander all your money

for a little time

So you will die

in the midst of preparations

for a happy life in the future

realizing wistfully and too late

that you carelessly cast aside

small moments of happiness close at hand

robbing yourself hour by hour

for the great happiness

in the distant future