Half-life
Life often fails to offer opportunities to choose.
Happy, sad, rich, poor—these things are more fact than function of our fiction free wills.
But our wills still matter, they are not without their power
Yet when choice at last is given, how easily we’re driven
sprinting back to the habits hewn from stony happenstance.
For the one whose song is sorrow
to sing joy would seem so saccharine.
Sacrilegious for the happy to grieve
unfair for the lucky to weep
lazy for the busy to rest.
So we do what we’ve done, been doing for decades.
Deal no division between decision and dictation.
Joy is poisoned with brevity
Sorrow groans, but only guiltily
And we’re all of us left with a half-life of decay.
Let life be living—shifting from giving us
darkness to light, daytime to night.
Sing the seasons in your soul
Watch the autumn fall from summer’s sunny joy.
Weep as winter’s white leaves lonely leafless trees.
Water softening spring soil with tears and
Witness gardens springing up from death.
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