Wild and Precious Life

What will you do with this one wild and precious life?

Will you settle into a comfortable routine

And watch yourself age out of everything

You ever wanted to do?

Will you numb yourself in pleasures

Until you aren’t conscious enough to notice

That your life-force is moving on

To a better host?

Will you live in a delusional reality

In which you are the good guy

Saving the world while enemies

Unfairly attack you from all sides?

Will you isolate yourself in fear of making mistakes,

Never trying anything new because

It just might disrupt your fragile little world?

Will you stay busy working, playing, socializing,

Such that you never have to hear your inner thoughts or feelings

Begging for you to listen?

Or…

Will you roll up your sleeves and engage?

Listen to the instinct driving you and obey?

Listen to the need of society and help in your own special way?

Will you follow your bliss until it gives you blisters

and even then, you don’t let go?

Will you dive into the depths and the darkness

Until your eyes learn to see in the dark and you grow gills?

Will you face the fire until someone hands you a shield to deflect it,

And the heat inspires you to build a tool to direct it,

And fuel your alchemy?

Will you charge after your fears,

Chasing them down until they submit to you

And finally grant you the blessing you need to feel whole?

Will you use up every ounce of life within you

Because you know

There’s no better way to live

This one wild and precious life?