Leave Us Alone, Fragile Life

Life fragile Throbbing within brittle bodies At the same time fertile and sterile Swimming in ebbing eddies At the most unexpected moment Fragility strikes a lung Next inflicts on legs fragments of torment So badly strung A woe-struck woman weeps and weeps Groaning and posing questions Why pain, pesky pain, prodding pain sweeps Through organ, tissue and cell sections Incapacitating, disabling, debilitating Rendering vitality weak Smashing, slashing, soaking, stealing Signs of stamina and succor quick Sometimes in intensive care Where souls land without a brand Wondering why this acidic affair Occurs which lives can’t understand When into their modest routines pain comes along Inflicting, inviting, inciting misery On the weak and the strong whose song strikes a gory gong With or without a celery Lives concluding Whether the breath of life Squanders time conjecturing Which glad or sad song to play on the fife ‘Tis unfair, I hold For life tricks to play Joy, justice and jingle to withhold As streams of pains waylay While with bated breath relatives in wait fret Wonder what the point is For life to pose a threat Through incapacity, debility, illness and disease.