I notice more because I experience less,
So I call out mankind’s destructive need
To know happiness in sweet excess!
When he or she must soothe abscess
And be freed from some corporeal chain
I notice more because I experience less.
And yet they fall to short-lived obsess
Because what lasts takes too long for man
To know happiness in sweet excess.
Therefore they play and complain all day
Of the pointless pain of living, yet too scared to end it
(I notice more because I experience less).
But I am content with what comes my way
And work with purpose, but no expectation
To know happiness in sweet excess.
It is God’s will and purpose that makes the man,
Not aimless wandering and wasted hands –
I notice more because I experience less
To know happiness in sweet excess.
Morning's Early Dark 