Let us live!

Let us not become our woes
Wrinkled by bitterness
Taste buds burnt through and through

Let us live!

Our hearts left aching
As we sit around waiting
Humming to the sound of our bones breaking

Let us live!

Let us not become brittle
Living in the dark
As fear of life eats us up, little by little

Let us live!

Clinging on our yesterdays
Buried by to-do’s today
Let us escape a future of bittersweet decay.

Let us live!

– L. F. Cramer
24/04/2014