“AURA”

There’s days when life just sticks it to you,

Right from the moment

You take your first breaths of the morning,

Down to your eyes close at the end of the day.

It’s complicated;

Life I mean..

So many questions

To be answered in so little time.

What exactly are we doing?

Why do we live?

What is life?

What is our purpose?

We live each day

In fear,

Watching the sun set

On our dreams, hopes, and aspirations.

Why are we alive if we all die?

Why are we subjected to this torture

Of watching our deepest hearts desires

Crushed before our very eyes?

Why?

(moment of silence)

We endure this viscous cycle

Of torment;

One after the other

While protecting our own.

It’s funny; the cosmic order of things;

Innocence, is malevolently

Stolen from us

by the very things we perceive true.

We’re given love,

Hope, patience,

Virtue, trust,

Honesty, and compassion amongst others,

And when the time is right,

We’re stripped of the very essence

Which we were given;

We’re stripped of life.

Understanding this chaotic psyche

Is no easy task;

It requires devotion, dedication, and

The ultimate sacrifice.

We all seek to find peace,

Each in our own beliefs,

Our own worlds,

Our own timelines.

Some of us acquire this “peace”

Naturally, and some of us don’t.

Some of us WILL this peace

But can’t attain it.

Most people crave the solace,

The peace that exists

When the madness is escaped, and

All is left behind.

Most people embrace that

Chaotic order,

And transmute that energy

To achieve their versions of the same “peace” they desire.

There’s people who don’t know either;

Who don’t have a place to go,

A warm embrace,

To soften the blow of these hellish vices.

But one thing remains certain,

And it’s that we never really know

What’s at play,

Or if there’s in fact, a bigger picture.

But we all want the same “peace”,

Even though it’s in our own ways,

We want it all,

We want to LIVE.