Life

So here we are…

Everything is at our fingertips

We’re safe and comfortable

Full of food and possessions

Loaded with expectations and dreams

Yet something is very troubling, unpredictable, and incomplete so it seems

However safe we are, we’re frozen with fear

For a creature with such potential

We seem to struggle from year to year

Our cravings are insatiable

Expectation are riddled with fraught

Our dreams are nothing more

Than fleeting moments of thought

One moment we are happy

The next in deep despair

It’s hard to see the conundrum

Between surviving and living well

Though everything is at our finger tips

We never seem to touch

The truly important things in life

Those that really mean so much

Virtue, service, and kindness

Are the greatest in the end

And the irony in this life

Is that it all comes from within