Why Life Bites

If only

If only I could freeze time

Figure out

What I’m supposed to say

But even then I know

I couldn’t make it okay again.

It’s a hard place to be in,

The world, I mean.

It’s not supposed to be a picnic.

You don’t see rainbows without the storm,

You can’t see stars if it’s not dark.

Life bites,

But you’ve got to learn to bite back.

The fact of the matter

Just happens to be

It’s not your world.

Other people breathe.

They don’t own the oxygen,

But neither do you.

Love is a trivial thing

That runs too deep

To not self-destruct

Every now and then.