Life Is What We Make It, You Are Saying That Again Poem by RIC BASTASA

and how many times will you tell me that
once, in your pocket poetry
once, you read it when you were so drunk
unable to take the right step
and say the right syllabication of your words
tipsy, you fall all alone by yourself
while i watch you
telling myself that this is another kind of life
wasted

then you are telling me again this time
when we are together going to the fields
of our own wars
as we hold our guns and read the maps
and trail the ways of the forest

life is what you make it
there seems to be an error somewhere

life is what we make it brother
we work as a team, a community, a nation, a country
a wall stronger than just anyone of us

we shall make it
we shall keep this struggle
as a nation, not just anyone of us, tipsy and drunk and hopeless
and falling alone
with the mere whisper of the wind, the whimper of the common enemy