What makes me want to live?

What makes me want to live?

To walk through the humidity,

the days tar seeps through the cracks and stains the streets black.

Biology says it’s a desire -

a wanton urge to survive

To not put out the fire,

to stay alive Long enough to reproduce,

to continue a family trail

To keep the world turning,

keep evolution on its rail

Religion says it’s God

-Or gods, whichever you believe-

Who put us here to finish

The worldly tapestry they weaved

Romance novels say it is our other

The one who holds your heart

And it is, perhaps,

a dreamy notion

To live so you do not part

The scholars say we live to create

To gain, to grow, to build

Then watch everything we’ve made come tumbling down

And re-use the soil when it stills.

But, for now,

I’ll just live to live

I’ll stay to just be there

To flip through a book’s sandpaper pages

With autumn wind tousling my hair.

For now I’ll live simply to live

To sip hot chocolate as the winds outside bite

I’ll live to try, to fall, to fly

I’ll live to stay alive.

#poetry #purposeoflife