# Hark/Interchangeable - (Original Poetry)

By [Scotty Gee Posts Stuff](https://paragraph.com/@scottygee) · 2024-09-03

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Hark  
I just checked my emails, texts messages and social media  
I was inundated with invitations  
To events like baptisms, weddings and funerals  
I think I’ll attend one of each  
Just to try to keep some balance and perspective  
If such a thing is even possible  
Birth, and marriage, and death are all interchangeable  
At least that’s what I was told  
I saw on it on a TV show  
Or maybe it was all in my head

Hark  
Do your joints creak and groan when you get out of bed  
About to snap like an elastic that’s been stretched out too far  
We’re all stretched out too far  
From time to time  
Do your eyes have to adjust to the dark like they adjust to the light?  
Are you at your brightest in the night and darkest in daytime?  
Darkness and light are interchangeable  
Neither one is favourable  
If you’re blinded by both  
I think it’s all in your head

Hark  
Please pay attention to what I say  
I’m the voice of reason, in an reasonless world  
I don’t believe that, but I have to tell myself anyway  
Truth and lies are interchangeable  
Depending on your point of view  
What is truthful to me might be a lie to you  
You discovered your own truth many years ago  
And it left me behind while I was still lying to everyone  
Looking in the mirror each day  
I’d lie to my own weathered and worn down face

Hark  
I’ve finally attended all the baptisms, weddings and funerals  
I am so damn confused  
I couldn’t tell them apart (interchangeable)  
Because birth leads to marriage, marriage leads to death  
And marriage leads to birth, and birth leads to death  
What a vicious circle  
I’m not sure who to congratulate and who to console  
I guess that one day I’ll know  
One day when I’m finally old and can go on no more  
Maybe I’ll hear it on a TV show

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*Originally published on [Scotty Gee Posts Stuff](https://paragraph.com/@scottygee/harkinterchangeable-original-poetry)*