THE PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY

Simon Collery

Some problems of philosophy

Reduce to pure absurdity,

Then, like old soldiers, fade away,

While some don't even fade, but stay

Some problems of philosophy

Reduce to pure absurdity,

Then, like old soldiers, fade away,

While some don't even fade, but stay

To flatter pedants and sophists

And worry thoughtful masochists

When there are better things to do

Well known to folk like me and you.

I went to bed last night and dreamed

Of someone whom, to me, it seemed,

Surpassed in beauty all but one

I'd ever seen beneath the sun.

And in my dream, being also night,

The moon supplied the only light

Which light, reflected by her skin,

Made the room quite bright within.

Dressed in nothing but the air

Surrounding all her body fair

She asked me if I'd move a bit

So she more comfortably could sit.

Being something of a gentleman

I said, "Of course, of course I can".

And she sat down in that same place

Though it was but a modest space.

There she sat and there I lay

Whiling happy times away

Doing this and doing that.

And I just lay there, she just sat.

There's little more I can report

So I should cut this story short

Except to note that, when I woke,

Though she of my dreams, of whom I spoke,

Surpassed in beauty all but one

I'd ever seen beneath the sun,

The unsurpassed in beauty lay

Beside me in the light of day.

Memories of the dream unfolded

And appeared to me as I just told it:

I saw that the beauty in the sun

And the beauty of the night were one.

Now, I could choose a life of doubt,

Of thinking what's been well thought out,

And wasting all my precious hours

In isolated ivory towers

Or try to solve pragmatically

The problems of philosophy

So I'll relax, enjoy the space,

Go back to sleep and rest my case.

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