Su Ben Poet Prose Poetry

The Weight of Life

In order for me to find out the weight of my life
I took all my clothes, shoes, accessories and even 
my pride off; and pain and grief are offset by 
the happiness and the joy, and stepped on the pan.

The number delivered from simple math 
shows the negative portion of my life was way greater 
than the positive, I thought weight of the other side of the pan 
would not hold my weight. But it was my mistake, the beam 
tilted to the other side, though it seems lighter than a feather.

No matter how closely examined, 
inconceivable is the weight of the weight.   

Is this the same reason though,
an airplane seems heavier than the air
but flies in the air; a battleship is heavier than the water
it floats on the water.

Although, life’s weight 
may be proportional to the number of wounds and scars 
like a rugged roadside stone, it is lighter than the weight 
on the other side of the scale.

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