Life- A Book of Poems

Life

Life.
Life is beautiful.

Its beauty is beyond anything we perceive.
Even the rays of the sun during the day,
or the pale moonlight during the night,
only provides a reflection of its beauty.
To know it requires a greater perception.

If everyone knew life is beautiful, we would all be at peace.

Your body is made of trillions of living cells.
Together they work to serve the whole.
They do so much more than by themselves,
because they understand their oneness with each other.

What would we be, if we lived in this way?

Most see the horror that man creates.
The destruction, violence, and war.
We human beings must be unnatural monsters,
but it is we who have come out of nature.
It never makes mistakes.

Suffering is caused by those who forget life is beautiful.
They see everything through the lens of themselves,
thus they cut themselves off from the world,
and live one of their own making.

Life is an obstacle, an enemy, a game.
Its other forms are lifeless pawns,
with or against them in different circumstances.
They bring great suffering in what they do,
but it is they who suffer the most.
In the end, they're all alone in a mad world.

Nature wants to try something new,
to endow a being with the gift of thought.
Yet the more it gives, the more we forget.
We just need to find our way back.

The beauty of life is all around you.
The beauty of the sky,
the life in the grass,
something supports you through all the madness.
It is life itself.

When you meet a stranger,
can feel the life in them?
It might be hidden through the layers,
but life always lies at their core.
You are both an expression of the one life:
the one life, lived through the many.

What a wonderful time to be alive!
To feel the air on your skin,
the life of your breath.
The inhale is what life brings.
The exhale is what you give back.
Together you are one.

Life is connected.
Life is whole.
Life is you.
That's why life is beautiful.