The Answer Is Life

Life was not meant to be forever beautiful Or hazy, dry and rigid Life is an ornament that needs your attention It is a flower that needs to be nourished It is a sky that is full of uncertainty Life is a door that leads to your true self It is a mirror that holds the sacred image Life is a canopy in a jungle of emotions A tree with many nests Life is a pyramid for the ancient to be known A miracle for the unknown to be seen Life is a pendulum of joy and sorrow A roller-coaster of beauty and ugliness A prelude to the most amazing existence Or a painful existence before the dawn of awareness Life is a painful sore that needs to be punctured A scab that needs to be addressed Life is a myriad of simplicity and complexity An institution of learning and unlearning A bastion of hope and a river of extreme desires Life is not a puzzle but a muzzle To restrict and retain the inner self To release and pour out the outer self Like a fantastic dream Life is folded in a mysterious vase You need to unbutton yourself to see it It is the sacred tabernacle of mercy The template of grace Life is the answer to all problems The problem to all answers Life is the epitome of your best attributes And the valley of your tears Life is the common denominator In an equation of joy and sorrow Life is the unrestricted prescription of mercy The unsaid word and the echo of hope Life is you and me, together as one Life is the human spirit enshrined in the temple of humanity Life is the absence of logic and the presence of you In an everlasting ocean of awareness ©Kenneth Maswabi