We Do Not Break

 

It’s always trying to break you.

Life, that is.

By being a jerk.

Always trying to get you

into the ground in some

way, like a greedy, planet,

feeding off the dead.

 

Which I suppose it is,

once we shake off this

mortal coil, we do

mostly end up in the

ground some way,

to be recycled into

whatever.

 

But the ride along the way,

is both beautiful and brutal.

Life’s leg always kicking out

in your pathway, trying to

trip you, and laugh at you,

and make you look foolish

in front of the other cool kids.

 

And yet, through it all,

we do not break.

We stay on our pathway,

or find a new one to traverse,

we keep going, because

there is no backwards,

and only one end forward.

 

We do not break.

We bend,

we writhe,

we wriggle,

we struggle,

we fight,

We do not break.