Sunday 17 November 2019

THE GAMBLE CALLED LIFE

THE GAMBLE CALLED LIFE

Oh life
What have you
Dealt me
In this game
Called "Living"?

I can go
Nowhere I desire
Hold no hand
I choose...

I can see 
No one I love 
When I want to...

Yes, you do
Grant me joys
Moments I treasure 
But life,
At the sunset 
Of everyday
You let me
Taste the bitter...

It's the taste
Of lonely hurting!

Why, life
Have you dealt
Me these cards...?
Am I not worthy
Of uplifting
Your name
In the gamble 
Of lìving?

Do I not deserve 
The taste of sweetness 
That you give
To so many breaths
Breathing?

Am I a pawn
In your complicated 
Ways
Or am I 
An accidental being
Merely existing...?

        FREDERIKA MENEZES

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