What are you, Life?
a conversation with life
Dear Life,
I know you flow through time without a particular care
To those who appear and disappear within you
I know you don’t need us to maintain nor dare
To question you
To look through you
To see you.
We know it’s not fair, but we’re curious
What are you?
What do want from us?
We struggle and travel through you. Continuous
Yet know nothing of what you want. So dubious
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Why do you want to know,
Is it that important to you?
Just be grateful that I contain you, no?
Your existence is one you’ll never decipher
So just take it out of your mind. Make it lighter
Why worry about the big questions,
When there’s no answer in sight?
Just live, love, laugh and be bright
For life is a mystery… a marvel
Not one that you can unravel
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You’re right, there is no answer in sight
But with continuous questions, I’ll never lose sight
I’ll learn more and more about your wonders
With each discovery I’ll continue to wonder
What’s next?
I’m ready to unveil more of you
To question and see more of you
Until the day I disappear
I’ll remain wondering about the sheer
Extent of you
What you contain, plenty rife
Forever wondering
What are you, life.
Sincerely,
Your inhabitants
About the Creator
Mo Darasi
I write fiction, poetry and occasional articles about interesting topics.
Finding interesting ways to write a poem or hide messages within them seems to be my main interesting in writing now, and it's been fun
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Comments (3)
Absolutely beautiful and strewn with warmth and longing. Lovely work sir!
Oh my goodness, I just came here to see if you wrote more for Epistolary challenge- I have missed a lot of notifications. This was absolutely wonderfully done! I'm so impressed with this poem, and the conversational structure to it. Beautiful questions. Beautiful conclusions. Well done, Mohammed! Now to go see if I missed any more of your work!
Ooh I love how you framed this as a discussion!! How cool! —I really thought I was subscribed to you already… hmmm well, I am now ☺️