Bob Steyn: What's A Life?

What's a life?

That sifts like sand so quickly through the fingers of time

That mingles and mixes what is mundane and what is sublime

That leaves behind the ones most loved and cherished

That burns so brightly, then in darkness is cruelly perished

That fashions memories and lingers in the world of dreams

That mounts to crescendo, then into whispers and silence recedes

That suspends between the beacons of birthing and dying

That lends us laughter, but begins and ends in crying

That weaves webs of wellbeing, only to sever its strands

That draws people together then like a teargassed crowd disbands

That glints like a speck on the dust in a cosmic storm

That blazes a trail across the lonely skies of reform

What's a life?

What's such a life? I'll tell you what it is

It is the life of Bob, and us all; it's a life lived full and true

A life which lives the questions, leaving still more for me and you

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