Your life is your life

Your life is your life,

Don't let it be clubbed into
dank submission.
Be on the watch.
There are way out
There is a light somewhere
It may not be much light but
It beats the darkness
Know them.
Take them.
You can't beat death but
you can beat death in life,
sometimes.
And the more often you learn
to do it,
the more light there will be.

Your life is your life,
know it while you have it.
You are marvelous.
The gods wait to delight in you.

The Laughing Heart, Charles Bukowski