Life.

Life is not a straight path with a clear sign

 Its not easy sailing in the sunshine

It is a shore line

 it is a vast expanse of growth and destruction at the same time.

 Like a grape vine It winds

 and it finds the light through the hard times.

Life is not simply right or wrong

 It is a bird song

 It takes the highs and the lows ,

 the nears and long gones

It takes being hit again and again like a game of ping pong

And still finding the strength to get up and go on.

Life is not simply surviving til we grow old

It's a lit coal Finite but burning bright against the worlds cold

 It's an ever searching beautiful soul With its own goals.

 It's not all about doing what you're told

It's about learning about unlearning

and yearning to find the truth that the world holds.

Life is not about competing for the cash prize

Its a compromise

Its caring for each other with a raw heart and no disguise

it's looking to the skies

to find the answer to your whys.

It's being wise

Its seeing through the lies

and still keeping love in your eyes

Its about sinking to the depths of despair, and learning to rise.

Life is not a one shot bullseye

It's the freedom to falter as your soul flies

 It's loving so much that you get tongue tied

And appreciating the moment before it goes by.

Its saying goodbye

to those to whom our paths are not tied.

Its wanting to cry,

and crying your fears away until your eyes dry.

 It's growing like a bonsai

Whose twists and turns make it beautiful as it reaches up to a new sky.

Life is not about being above or below

 It's an opportunity to grow

To come to know what we don't know

And learn to paint our future like a Van Gogh.

 It's accepting our past and learning to let go

 It's battling on the inside, and fighting our ego

it's being the universe and letting our hearts glow

because life is imperfect, and perfectly so.