I’d love to change the world…

(this is sort of a companion piece to another poem I wrote last year)

The Ten Years After song keeps playing n my head

The same line over and over

Like a skipped record when we still had records to skip

But in this digital age mp3s I have to live with it\

Like the indigestion of my own inability

To be anything other than what I am

And to do what it is I can

And not to assume I can do more or should do more

Than I ought to,

To know more than I actually know

Indeed, if I know anything at all,

But to let things be and accept what is

For what could be, and take pleasure

In the world as it is and learn to live on it

I have to learn to accept it

And love it as it is

Or if not love, then not at all

And being is better than not being

I have to learn to take what I can get

And not expect to get more than I deserve

I have to learn