Poem#56

is life worth all the cost?
all the pain, all the loss?

what’s the value of life
when it’s nothing but strife

where events unforeseen
take the ground from under my feet

as I’m falling through space
I instinctively brace

for the impact that shatters
everything that truly matters

March 7, 2012 & Late July 2013
(c) Rachel Phillips