To Life
Life is time that's awarded to do what you will.
It's your deeds then recorded that chapters will fill.
It's a miracle given, divinely ordained,
That by passions is driven, by conscience restrained.
Life's pretend and illusion and fantastic dreams
It's mistakes and confusion, excitement and schemes.
It's absurd and is strange and a hectic charade,
And is compromise, change, and a joyful parade.
Life is knowledge, perception, pursuit, and romance.
It's invention, conception, and taking a chance.
It is loss and bereavement and battles not won;
But is also achievement and spirit and fun.
Life is striving, prevailing, and staying the course.
It's discouragement, failing, and doubt and remorse.
Life's the people you've met and the challenges dared.
It's forgive and forget and is happiness shared.
Life's experience, pain, the direction you chart.
It's your character, brain and persona and heart.
It's your children and lover and parents and friends,
And the truths you discover, and making amends.
Life's acceptance and choices; it's hope, faith, and fear.
It's the music and voices and laughter you hear.
It's the drama you're staging, opinions you own,
And adventure and aging and fighting alone.
Life is ancestry, gender, appearance, IQ.
It's persistence, surrender, and work that you do.
It's ordeals and decisions, a journey that's new,
And is wishes and visions that fade or come true.
Life is sensual pleasure's delights and their toll
And the moderate measures that urges control.
It's a scenic stampede and bolero-like beat
And the love human's need to existence complete.
Life's a crawl and an amble, a march and a leap.
It's a gallop and gambol, retirement and sleep.
It's a trudge and a trek and a carnival ride.
In the cosmos, a speck that a soul occupied.
Life's routine and surprising, the then and the now,
From a curtain that's rising to ultimate bow.
Life's a marvelous host to whom glasses we lift.
With L' Chaim we toast this magnificent gift.
Copyright © Richard Thomas | Year Posted 2020
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