We Must Strive! (a villanelle)

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The Mutt
The Mutt
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Since when is it enough that we survive?
To whimper, "Well, at least I still remain?"
There's more to life than living, we must strive!

Is it heroic just to stay alive?
To live a life avoiding risk and pain?
Since when is it enough that we survive?

We pass our days as drones who serve the hive,
too meek to raise our voices or complain;
There's more to life than living, we must strive!

Have we surrendered all our fire and drive
to huddle in our caves and curse the rain?
Since when is it enough that we survive?

Our journey's goal is not just to arrive,
but leave our footprints far beyond the lane;
There's more to life than living, we must strive!

To build, to grow, to learn, to love, to thrive,
to soar to stellar heights before we wane.
Since when is it enough that we survive?
There's more to life than living, we must strive!

The Mutt
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My Erotic TaleMy Erotic Taleabout 19 years ago
Inspirational~

I was taught that there were two kinds of hands

helping hands and hand fulls, I since learned

that there is a right and a left two <grin>

There were two kinds of people too, those who

build and then the destructive, then I learned

that there was man and woman you know what I

learned? that there's more than what people tell

me! <smile> loved your poem~

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