Free Fall

By Andrew O. Leskinen

Yet here we are

Dreamers and schemers

And parrot head believers

Looking beyond what we are,

What we have become

Running from our own existence

Grasping and searching for our lives

Wondering where will we be

When our road runs out

Of pavement, rock, or sand

As we freefall through our eternity

Will ours be a life well lived

Or only a lived life

Step by step

Moment by moment

Life rushes past

A wasted moment will never return

Every forward moment needs to be lived.

Don’t be weighed down by

Vacant people chained to living

Seeking lost souls approval

For their own haunted lonely lives

Let them wallow in their sorrow

Rise above the suffocating quicksand

Of social acceptance

Live life as God intended

This beauty, this amazing creation

On which we stride

Wasn’t spread before your very soul

For you to bend your head,

Avert your eyes, and close your heart

Life, is a gift to live, not merely,

A burden to bear