Satire - Atul Singh

Life is a satire on life itself

it laughs and mocks our ignoramus ways

gives chock full of rules, then changes the game

and belly laughs the whole way away

it bookends us, with incontinence

meanwhile lets our arrogance have it’s day

leads us by nose to want everything in sight

then quietly tucks it all away

gives us health and youth and a swagger to boot

and just when we feel, we hold sway

slips in old age, disease and death

hysterically laughing all the way away

Oh I got you bitch, says the man who is rich

until fortunes turn and he lies in a ditch

at his curious expression, life gives a nice aww!

and belly laughs the whole way away

when we are done teaching our parents to do it right

life gives us children to enjoy our plight

it gets us to make plans for years on out

in very next hour tackles us to the ground

it makes us seek love for years on end

then burns us with heartaches that will not mend

gives us fists to hold everything tight

but the tighter we hold the less there is to find

it makes us believe that a bud turns into a flower

not telling us that the flower pulls everything its way

that all that there will be, already is

Just for fun life plays it this way

Life is a satire on life itself

it laughs and mocks our ignoramus ways

gives chock full of rules, then changes the game

and belly laughs the whole way away