A poetic parable from 1991...
We walked through modern
Shopping city
Looking into windows
Shopping
Window shopping
In shopping city
Reduced prices
Still expensive
That's the harsh reality of
Shopping city
This is our day
This is our lives
Window shopping
People told us
"Look above the shops
See the beautiful architecture
Of past centuries
Before shopping city"
I didn't believe
That there was anything before
Shopping city
I couldn't look up
To see if it was real
If the past
Related to the present -
That would be irrational
Let the past be the past
We should live in today's
Shopping city
Dude, I'm gonna have to read this a couple times! Haha, it's so deep, and I'm not sure I'm fully aware of the meaning... You may have to help me out? ;P
ReplyDeleteDude? Not sure I've been called that before! 👍 Yes, there is a deeper meaning. Maybe this is more apt to Europe? Many shops are in older buildings here but if you only look in the shop window you miss out on some beautiful old architecture. So the idea is - we spend our lives looking down at the earthly things which absorb us and miss out on beauty. Some are so absorbed in the now that they fail to appreciate the bigger picture in life. It's basically a poem against hedonism (sort of). And there is the wider element of that hedonism that many have a "live for the pleasures of today because there is no God" mentality. There you go!
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