739 - The Heavenly Retirement Village

Sunday Whirl (Wordle #172) presents a list of words

that we must incorporate in a writing piece.  

The words this week are: 

irritation, sound, disclose, bliss, last, signal,

appetite, sun, flamboyant, jumbled, point, tire.

The Heavenly Retirement Village

What would life be 

Without irritations?

We humans, or some of us at least,

Pine for the eternal and unending 

Bliss of Heaven,

Possibly, for some, with added virgins,

Possibly with unending blue skies 

And glorious sunshine

And the sounds of golden trumpets.

But really? 

For an eternity?

For ever and ever and ever?

Surely we would tire of it?

Just as our earthly incarnations

Have little appetite for uniformity

And unending repetition,

Thinking of clothes, 

Of food, 

Of music,

We thrive on a jumbled life,

On a mixture of the flamboyant,

Of the mundane and of the different.

And that’s the point really,

Variety is truly the spice of life,

We want each day to disclose new things,

Granted, not disastrous things, but new things,

Each different to the last in some way,

In a way that tantalizes us, 

That surprises us,

That signals that today is different 

To yesterday.  

And to tomorrow.

If every day is the same

Where is the need for emotion?

For laughter, for tears, for surprise?

And, without emotion,

Where is life?

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2014

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