What Is Life

We have been learning from life before we learned how to crawl But of life for a moment have you ever wondered at all What it is about since the great to the small Eventually like the leaves of the deciduous trees to Nature's reaper must fall You crave material wealth and Worldly renown And you want to be known as the most successful one in the town With many others for this honor you do compete Such competition that takes place in every street But when all you dream of in life you achieve And from life what you ask for you do receive And your big ego to a far bigger one swell You suddenly feel physically quite unwell Your doctor refer you to a health consultant and her diagnosis for you worse than sad In fact her news for you it is very bad That you have a terminal illness you may be deceased in two years Your wife and teenage children at your bad news in tears From the height of achievements and the pride in your success To sickness on death list and in great unhappiness You feel like a brown leaf of the Autumn to the earth about to fall And you ask yourself what is life about at all?