Life Happens

Life happens
So quickly
Too quickly
A blink of an eye separates
That one time in school
When everyone saw your Little Mermaid underwear
From
that one time you ate pizza in the dark
Because electricity powers a house and food powers you
But there was only money for one.

Life happens
So slowly
Too slowly
We chose
what we risk
How we sacrifice
Why we are motivated
And each decision is slowed by a hypothetical tar
We've poured too thickly
Causing travel from question to answer
To take too long.

Life happens
So carelessly
Too carelessly
A single wrong turn
on the right road
And potential crashes
Hope Burns
Like a Salem witch
Wailing her profound innocence
She didn't mean
To turn that guy into a toad
She didn't know
he had a family to feed
But innocence is not dependent on intent

Life happens
So cautiously
Too cautiously
As children we dream
Of why
The world is made for us
As time fades in and out
Those dreams
Become a million flickering stars far out of reach.
We dream of risks untaken
We desire the path untraveled
But we fear to travel on
So the stars fade