LIFE

        LIFE

Some say it’s sacred

since they have it

and the ability to describe it. 

Others say it’s cheap;

ask the murderers,

ask the military,

ask the killers,

ask the army.

I say it’s neither;

skip the adjectives,

give us a noun.

And the noun is “gift”. 

Your life is a gift,

a kind of miracle,

like hitting the jackpot,

like winning the lottery. 

Odds were one in three hundred million, 

at the moment of inception,

and you were the one.

So sing a song of Te Deum

and live every day

with joyful gratitude.

    August 5, 2012