how

how can you celebrate
when all around you
people are suffering
there are empty tummies on the streets

how can you live
an unexsmined, comfortable life
when a woman
an excellent example of kindness
passes on and remind you just how short
life
is.

life.
the beautiful, confusing labyrinth of a series of breath
and circulations
steps and action
over the course
of a lifetime
whether by causation, determination
or by the action of the free moral agent

you are reading this
i am writing this
we are living.
so seize the moment
in awareness
do not put off for a tomorrow
that isn't even real
or live in the past
that is alive only in memory

live in the now
for that is all me have
and it is ever changing
irrecoverable
and ever beautiful
in the in the unglorious
painful
agonizing
moments
it is beautiful
because this is what we have
and our divine right
is to have our life
be as beautiful as we are
creative as we are
and
divine as we are.