Life is a quick sneeze, (Hii Ku!) bless you

Ruminate on life.

value in health, kids,

and loving wife.

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Work to support

family, only one goal

warm childhood soul

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Love, silky red mist

clothe my weary heart.

Life anew with kiss.

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Time becomes soft

moments are fragile, gray,

memories are lost.

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High above Earth,

life looks so very simple,

death is birth

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Atlas, thy name is Mother

She remains there, beneath life, under a heavy world.

Kids, events, age, career, household, her man,

she holds it all, on her shoulders,

in a labored squat.

He looks for the perfect polo, the best cologne,

he drives a shiny car into the sunset of career advancement,

he thinks he has it all, in his future,

because maybe, he doesn’t know squat.