~poem~ Jurisprudence Requires Prudence

Everything(?!) In Moderation

by

Charnjit

22/4/2016

"Sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll?"

Priests and nuns dancing on a pole?

A little of what you fancy does you good

What does you good?

For it's all good in the 'hood.

Mirror mirror on the wall

Who's the "fairest" of them all?

Politicians, opticians, clinicians, physicians

Deep down all on their personal missions

But where's the balance I hear you say

Of moderation you speak, but which way, which day?

Follow your heart and you can't go wrong

Trust your gut, sing your own song.

The best things come to those who wait

But if you don't ask you don't get

So which opens the gate?

Medicines and lotions, pills and potions

Herbs and teas, potatoes and peas

Chocolates, sweets, pastries, cakes

Diabetes, heart attack, pains and aches

"One way or another I'm gonna find ya

I'm gonna getcha, getcha, getcha, getcha

One way or another"

That's what moderation does.

It gets you by the short and curlies

Grabs and twists and pulls and tugs

"WOWCHER!" got your voucher?

Waxes or hugs?

Swing the pendulum if you must

Go too far and you'll go bust

Go too near - there's nothing to fear

But then that's just boring

But safe too my dear

John Lennon talked of "isms"

He wasn't too far wrong

When he penned that song

But what he didn't see

Was his own extremity

Striving for peace all around

But on the inside he had already drowned

It starts early on if we let it

The conditioning, the programming

"Lest we forget it"

Just imagine if we did and started afresh

Imagine just like John but bring it to flesh

With a little of this

And a little of that

In moderation, in balance

Not tit for tat

"When the power of love reigns, peace will too"

Said by the many and said by the few

(Jimi, Jenny, Huey and Frankie

They've all said it in a round about way)

Cancer cancer is everywhere

It sends us into turmoil at the hint of a scare

We're dropping like flies or so it appears

Propaganda fanning the flames of our fears

But there's nothing to fear but fear itself

For the true gift of fear mostly sits on the shelf

(Have you read it lately?)

System down, man down

First line, front line

Support is needed on every level

Up, down, left, right

In, out, shake it all about

You do the hokey cokey and you turn around

That's what it's all about

Hoi!

Ahoy there sailor, good day to you Captain Pugwash and friends

You know who you are - Master Bates and Seaman Staines

How did they get away with that one?!

Moderation my dear, that's how, oh wow!

It just came to me!

The answer to life is not 42 or 43

But moderation in all things

Including moderation

There is a divine and intricate balance

Of which we know so little and yet we know it all

And who loves a know it all?

Me?

Possibly ;-)

much love (in moderation of course)

C xx