WHAT IS LIFE

What is life
And what is that we want
We are born in this time in space
To walk the earth
To breathe the air
And to feel the presence
Of another human being
Our eyes take in the beauty around us
And the ugliness that sits on the sidelines
Our ears hear the songs of the birds
And the silence of death
Our steps take us to places
That men dreamed of walking
We take so much for granted
We expect so much
We are capable of love
And of hate
We are capable of healing
And of killing
We are a people of peace
Yet we enter into war
We humans are so much alike
Yet so opposite
We are people of truth
Yet we deceive and lie
What makes us do the things we do
Be it good or bad
What makes us tick
What enters our mind
To create
And to destroy
We are capable of multiplying
Yet we don’t care for that which
We brought into the world
Animals treat their young better
At times
Life has its way of blinding us
And making a fool out of us
Are we really capable of loving
As we wish to be loved
Are we really capable of seeing
And hearing only good
Or must we take in the bad as well
We have so much to learn here on earth
Before we are taken
To return no more
To be not given another chance
So much to learn
In so short a time

Gail Adams June 16/11