Life

Life, you are…

Life, you are indescribable.
Meaningless, twisted, utterly futile.
Wracked with senseless pain, hopeless cruelty.

Life, you are indescribable.
Every day an opportunity,
Bursting, bubbling, brimming with joy.

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Life, you are varied.
Filled with unclimbable peaks,
Dark, daunting valleys.

Life, you are varied.
Filled with exhilarating challenges,
Obstacles to overcome.

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Life, you are a game.
The odds stacked against me.
The match is fixed, unwinnable.

Life, you are a game.
To be played and enjoyed.
To push me to the limit, a race to the ultimate finish line.

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Life, you are long.
Dragged out, interminable.
Endless toil through a desert with no visible horizon.

Life, you are long.
Fruitful, fertile.
An opportunity around every corner.

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Life, you give me choice.
Placing my future in my shaky, tentative hands.
A delicate balance, so easily unhinged.

Life, you give me choice.
You hand to me on a silver platter
The chance to make my own destiny.

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Life, you are a Van Gough painting.
A Starry Night.
Gloomy, filled with turmoil.
Mere pinpricks of light and hope

Life, you are a Van Gough painting.
Sunflowers.
Ablaze, alight with pure joy and colour.
An inspiration.

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Life, you are sleepless.
Without rest, forever longing for the world to stop spinning
And let me catch up.

Life, you are sleepless.
Forever a party, a celebration.
Dancing, dancing, dancing into the night!

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Life, you are fragile.
Weak, pathetic.
So easily lost.

Life, you are fragile.
Precious, intricate.
To be treasured forever.

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