Life: The Full Experience

Giving It Your All

I watch as folks
slump past,
head down,
eyes closed to the world around them,
shutting out their lives,
living in their eyelids,
where the darkness is safe and comfortable.
There, they create their own worlds,
make things as they wish
and break them without a second glance.
But, when the sun will shine in their eyes,
and they are forced to look around,
they'll be blinded and burned,
torn from their safety blanket
which will burn before them,
the place they knew melting away,
a soothing ice cube that can only last so long.

For a planet with so much to see,
Earth sure has a lot of narrow sighted visitors.
To them, only one thing exists;
the center of their cramped worlds,
which they cling to like a life raft,
when to live they must let go.
Release that safety net,
and reach out instead to the roaring waves,
clasp hands with the water,
join it in it's maddening dance.
Sure, you may get pushed underwater
every now and then,
but the rush,
the flow,
the energy of being alive,
you'll have the chance to feel that.
But if you waste away in a fake existence,
your life will fade with you,
leaving nothing behind but the footprints
where you once stood
playing a game of pretend
that you lost in the end.