Living Is Not Enough

Walking alone, along edges of the horizon, watching the ocean rise and fall within me. Taking a lifetime into mind, seeing it like a video once again, as it hurries past and into the present. Looking at all the tears that have fallen into cisterns of life, smiles and laughter, there have not been quite so much. Living is such a burden, why do we have to put up with it's degrading aspects throughout it? Why not just turn our backs on it's sorry situations and circumstances. Guess, because we want so badly to have more to be thank- ful for, just living doesn't seem to be enough as we grow older.