Saturday, July 25, 2009

Profit

What value is profit if gains are from another's loss

When the sky gets dark one becomes restless and unsure

Everything that comes feels like a threat

To everything known or desired


Startled awake in the night alone and afraid

Panic of life when afraid to die

What makes me stumble through this life

As if; I was afraid to love

Life that is not mine but flows through

For what is born is certain to die

What it profit a man if he lies his way

Across a planet and never cries?


For the children never born

To enjoy the day, even though

Doomed to die? Who am i to begrudge

life's rush, the dawns flush, every day


What matters is not "our" life,

but our capacity to love it,

the other, easier

you, than me

I wonder why.

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