This is my life

This is my life and I will live it

This is my life.
Not yours, but mine.
This is my life.

A gift freely given,
I did not ask to be in this state: living.

They say all we have is the moment,
So I’m going to cease it.
Grab it by the horns
And never release it.

Why?
Because I’ve seen worse.
Life teaches in rhythm, like verse.
This happens and that happens,
So you learn what’s important,
And grow from what happens.

That’s when you don’t just exist;
You live.

Acceptance.
Good and bad,
Fortune and misfortune,
Pleasure and pain,
I want it all,
Because it’s mine.

Now I’m…
Weighing life’s fortunes on a scale;
Times when I suffered
And times when all went well.
I hear voices in my head,
Saying the scale is tipping in the wrong direction.
That I should start taking care of myself instead.

They say live it how you want to
Or else someone else will.
This is my life, and I will
Live it.