Dear Life,

  Life:

                                     Dear Life, isn't it any wonder?

                                          Life is filled with pain,

                                          Pains that can be turned into powers:

                                          When we realize and accept its necessity,

                                          Acceptance has taken its toll and now erodes.

                                                 Like knives of pain, shuffles in losses and gains

                                          cutting flames, living behind only what remains.

                                          Cutting tides living to thrive that’s no jive:

                                          An aging process in the human remains.

                                          Oh! The joys of life, double take and think twice.

                                          Through gritting teeth, gasping breath, of all that’s

                                          left a smile between WTF: a transmission of grace.

                                                       You got it. Reaching for glory on the journey's end.

                                   The release is remedied; through an agonizing

                                   Survival instinct. Torch forged in experiential.

                                          furnace perception: since life has faded enveloped in

                                          a flower of illusion, and to think all your Net-Worth

                                          Is going to fit in a coffin/crematory, modern-day

                                          Tomb. Embrace the profound beauty in death

                                          an exit into your true self, a spiritual being

                                         Which ultimately shrinks into a conclusion.

                                         How vain a thing, this life: so, it seems,

                                         becomes nothing much less than an exercise in

                                         Contemplation. Dear Life,