Fill the cup

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is a really long and convoluted poem.  During the first three fourths of the 1900s, it was fashionable to read this work.  It was what sophisticates did.  Things in education have changed a whole lot so that now students don't even know the name of this once esteemed classic.  It really doesn't lend itself to being tested using current standards, and it is most certainly not good practice for what appears on a state exam.

But, it had a certain wisdom among its lines that wasn't obfuscated by words that people don't normally read.  In fact, if one were to read the lines for a recurring message, this is the message that would surface.

        Ah, fill the Cup:---what boots it to repeat

       How Time is slipping underneath our Feet:

       Unborn TO-MO.RROW, and dead YESTERDAY,

       Why fret about them if TO-DAY be sweet!  (Canto 38)

I invite people to read again the lines of the Rubaiyat's cantos.  It inspires one to live in the day, in each of its moments... to let loose, to live, to enjoy... to love deeply, to not waste time without the one you love.

        Ah Love! could thou and I with Fate conspire

          To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,

          Would not we shatter it to bits---and then

          Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!  (Canto 73)

It's time to conspire and shatter and remold  in order to live and enjoy and    love deeply!