you can wait around
for something to happen
maybe, every day
hoping for better
you can spend all your time
trying not to feel —
avoiding simple pain
fearing events that may never come
but this is all there is
good or bad
boring or riveting
your life is here and you must be here too
you must show up
you must live it
you can waste as much of it as you want
denying that it’s the life for you,
living anywhere but where you are —
in any time but now…
sleepwalking, daydreaming, talking through endless
abstractions
sulk, sneer, eat chips off your own shoulder,
but don’t balk at this life
glamorous or ugly,
rich or poor,
or anything in between
your life is the one you have
and it carries on
with or without you
so you might as well be there
to talk to the ones who are around,
to love whoever is there to be loved
because this is all there is
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