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Life isn't something you can just leave.

 
Life isn't something you can just leave.
Sometimes it'll take you somewhere nice
It'll give you all the joys and pleasures you feel you deserve
stuff you full of your familiar treats,maybe some new exotic ones you've never tried
catch you by surprise  
But then  
 it'll punch you in the gut, leave you nowhere with no one to call
or rip the curtain off you naked in the shower stall.
Life isn't perfect.
sometimes it pisses on the mat
maybe  cuts the bagel so there's one side paper flat
or it'll try to hush up the stairs in the dark quietly trying not to wake you and accidentally kick the cat.
Life tries it best but doesn't always live up.
It's not it's fault if you expect too much.
 
 
Life doesn't always make sense
Sometimes it's drunk and slobbering saliva everywhere
 trying to figure out do all, it's agreed to.
or trying to tell you something important with a numbed dentist mouth.
 
Sometimes Life is comforting.Life could be worse.
Life could tell you it doesn't love you after many years then kiss someone else
or it could treat you like the void of opening a wallet or purse to find no money insde when needed.
 
At times Life feels  small
like inside a circled destination on a map
 it'll feel trapped like it's behind one of those criss cross fences
or life will be adventurous
like the open road and a begun ramble.
 
Sometimes,Life just tells you to fuck it.
So you'll go at it without a care in the world,
Maybe dance like you're a puppet
or climb in a tree for the sheer hell of it.
 
Sometimes Life just is.
and Life cannot be condensed into a mere fraction of a line or a poem.
Sometimes (maybe always) you cannot quite  capture how it feels to walk with Life on a sunny day  
with nothing on your mind but It and the moment.No laboured breath.No Urgency.No tragic tomorrows or never will be's.Not tonight.Only you and life together in that now.
 
Life isn't something you can just leave.
you've made a long commitment to it and you better stick with it.
Written by ScottSF21
Published | Edited 22nd Jan 2013
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