On Life Poem by Mike Barrett

How long
Has it been
Since you've sat
By yourself
Alone -,
Have emptied
Your head
Of your world
And its problems
And wondered
Who?
What?
Why?

Has never
This happened
to you -
When alone
You faced
The weight
Of these questions?

Agreed,
That it is easier
When they enter the mind,
To turn the thoughts,
To retreat and pretend
That these questions
Never arose -
But life
Has its ways
Of forcing their return
And
We cannot
Run away
From life
Forever.

We can
However surrender.

We can
However serve.

Surrender and serve.

The answer so simple.

The task so hard!


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