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oment is all we have In time, to live, Why die slowly, an inch at a time, When every one of those inches, Could be filled with gratitude For all the pearls That drop into your life, Unacknowledged, unsung?</p><p id="d017">Will you mourn them When they pass, Irretrievable Irrevocable, Compose an elegy Sing a dirge Hold a wake?</p><p id="bf3d">Or will you choose To live each glowing moment Of hope and despair, Elation and misery As they come by, Give thanks for the former Learn from the latter, And go on, through life?</p><p id="c6bd">ⓒ <i>2022 Suma Narayan. All Rights Reserved.</i></p><p id="6441">Written as a response to this inspirational piece by <a href="undefined">Jennifer Burke Grehan</a>, in which she has provided a quote that is a prompt for each day of August. Everyone of these quotes is meaty and full of promise: and do not have to be confined to August alone.</p><div id="61b3" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/sharing-my-august-2022-writing-challenge-f7ec1c441b3c"> <div>

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<div> <h2>Sharing My August 2022 Writing Challenge</h2> <div><h3>Feel Free To Join</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*RWDA4fUxQwhlG2V0)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="bfbb">Shoutout to this powerful poem by <a href="undefined">Anthi Psomiadou</a>:</p><div id="76e6" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/inner-sunset-2dfe2c5cd849"> <div> <div> <h2>Inner Sunset</h2> <div><h3>Just experiencing the experience</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*jn7C71_JTRf4r3WfVtHqWQ.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

Response to a Prompt

Suma, I said, Cease, desist, quit (that’s the English teacher in me, Forever in love with Roget’s) Why waste time thinking About doomsday scenarios Why not just wait for them to happen, if they must Why poison, vitiate, destroy (Oops! There I go again!) The sweetness of the present?

Alternately, why create drama in life In hypothetical colour and consequence Isn’t there enough in your life Without it?

If you, Suma, are always going to Look forward in anger, And look back, in regret, When are you going to live?

For, you know, Who, better, That a moment is all we have In time, to live, Why die slowly, an inch at a time, When every one of those inches, Could be filled with gratitude For all the pearls That drop into your life, Unacknowledged, unsung?

Will you mourn them When they pass, Irretrievable Irrevocable, Compose an elegy Sing a dirge Hold a wake?

Or will you choose To live each glowing moment Of hope and despair, Elation and misery As they come by, Give thanks for the former Learn from the latter, And go on, through life?

Written as a response to this inspirational piece by Jennifer Burke Grehan, in which she has provided a quote that is a prompt for each day of August. Everyone of these quotes is meaty and full of promise: and do not have to be confined to August alone.

Shoutout to this powerful poem by Anthi Psomiadou: