Is This It?

One can almost hear the contempt dripping

From every word: only three words, pregnant with meaning.

Rush not to judgement! Hold your horses

“Is this it?”, can be said also in a sense of wonder.

Of the beauty of the cosmos to say it’s context-bound

Is axiomatic. It is a given, from which one proceeds

Three words: to either condemn or praise to choose

The stairway to heaven or the road to hell.

Please wait, so much drama; the two allusions

Are to song titles that had some infamy or love

The question is, “Is this it? referring to a fluid

Situation or something established.

It presupposes a point of view, or does it?

A comment, “Is this it?” can equate to 

“Is this or these our challenge(s)?”

This is an optimist’s point of view.

Three words. Lie to play, rearrange? Good idea. Let’s!

“Is this it?” “This is it?” “It is this?” “it this is”

They all depend on “it”. Define “it”, the end of the problem

Gone are the scorching condemnations. The limpid excuses,

People of my age might remember Peggy Lee

Singing in 1969, “Is that all there is?"

A song from her album of the same name. “Is that all there is?”

Could easily be misconstrued and be recast in the mould.

Of our innocent question, “Is this it?” How well do you remember

 the lyrics to that song? To a string of horrors, events in her life 

The woman sings the chorus.

“Is that all there is?

Is that all there is?

If that's all there is, my friends

Then let's keep dancing

Let's break out the booze and have a ball

If that's all there is?”

Life is the ultimate disappointment. Did no one inform her?

She had choices and choices; every day is new and challenging

With opportunities waiting? She might have finished off at the 

fourth line, “then, let’s keep dancing”.

No one did. She didn’t.

So, how the question is asked is immaterial.

Its Importance lies in that are asked. The stairway to heaven or the road to hell?

You might remember them well enough to hum them.