Life
you’re not here long enough
to spend enough days laughing
playing
eating watermelon and icecream
see birds flying
blue skies
rain clouds emptying their bounty
raw enough to feel each moment
slip by knowing
you do not get out alive
and neither does anyone else
these moments
slips of time
we spend with each other
holding hands
sometimes clenched teeth
bruised hearts
it will all end someday
and we’ll miss the moments
we spent in furious rage
lamenting over something so painful
and yet now so insignifant
do we get to take another breath
do we get to wake tomorrow
do we get one more chance to make it right
do we get to say good-bye
the way we want to
and most of the time no
it burns in hearts
makes it seem like we could almost bleed to death
from tears lumped in throats
we do not get to escape this pain of living
but we get to choose
what we lean into
in our moments we have left
here.
Jennie Olson Six 