Why Care

Sometimes I look at life and wonder

Why care?

Nature speaks its opulence as fox dispatches hare

Inevitably in the burrow, defenseless litter lay in slumber

For we are the prey, the predator expedient in number

So ask yourself, don't speak, but think, why do we even dare?

Ultimately too late we find Her trap laid down to snare

Life's many burdens, laid onto us, invoke chaos, nothing still

Diverted perspective, past length of the window, beyond the seal brown sill

Self-worth and joy go hand in hand, you must commandeer the pair

What happened to scrupulous romance?  It is together we climb the stair

Salvation of nations is within the boy, melodious young drummer

I do surmise, at wintertime we effervesce the summer

Is it not what we do?  We dream, is not part of life to dream?

Outshine your monitor, mere fatuity surfs cyberspace's stream

Be patient, your dream will fall into place, perhaps as in Midsummer

Never by tongue or thought deride your hardly fissioned wonder

Search within you, to know yourself is all that's really fair

Cease all worry arisen from time; realize its bitter destiny is to wear

For then, and only then, you'll strain to find a reason not to care