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Life’s aim


Why not living ------ just living ? Why not breathing --------- just breathing ? Why man is bothering ? ------ why to live ? Why to breathe ? Life is not so easy , Vagaries of life are numberless Emerging as a bolt from the blue Thrashing man under their pestle Impelling him to fight harder ------- Ferocious fight engaging him To oblivion ------- nothing around For notice. Man, a paragon of rationality; A quintessence of awareness, However with a suddenness, Broods over his misery As a yoke of rigorous struggle, And Ikigai is on measure To add for sublime pleasure Life is not so easy If aim is not caparisoned. Life is not so easy If tis not well-destined. Man is primed to welcome death Whether minus reason. But man is out agonized, If aimless with hissing breaths. Aim hit, life fit ----------- Man’s all acts ------ to search the aim Or, Man’s all acts are the aim. Two goalposts, ball one.
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PersonalThemeAbstract

Philosophical inquiry into meaning, purpose, mortality; existential abstraction dominates.

SparseMeasureDense

Dense accumulation of existential questions, concepts, paradoxes; rapid idea progression.

DarkSentimentBright

Predominantly dark: struggle, misery, death, anguish; some redemptive notes via purpose.

StillEnergyExplosive

Intense questioning, forceful verbs (thrashing, ferocious), dynamic syntax; restless urgency.

MicroLengthEpic

Approximately 32 lines; falls within 31-60 range.

PlainFigurativeOrnamented

Rich metaphors (bolt, pestle, yoke, goalposts), personification, allusion (Ikigai); ornamented.

LyricVoiceDramatic

Primarily lyric introspection with philosophical generalizations about 'Man'; some dramatic address.

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