Live, Love, Loss

By Cameron Foster

To be human is to live 

To receive as much as you give 

For in our hands, we bring life 

With it, we have the ability to take it away 

Through hand, gun, or knife 

We also learned to love 

It’s our religion to love the God above 

We choose one another 

Husband or wife 

We love our closest friends 

Even if we are on other ends

We love as we breathe 

We see that there’s not much a difference between you and me 

And we lose as fast as the wind gives us breeze 

We work hard and we fail 

Some of us mess up and go to jail 

We lose ourselves chasing our own tail 

We are a boat and sometimes we lose our sail

Sometimes we put our souls on sale 

We lose our close ones those that are dear

So we become our greatest fear 

And we separate from the rest that we’re near

And we find sadness and things that used to make us cheer

Some of us are monsters, but no one starts out that way 

Some listen to the wrong words that we(some) have to say 

And we lose ourselves in the feelings we used to keep at bay

But we have power to check on each other and make sure we’re OK

And our inner demons become our outer feelings 

Every day 

So if you have a friend check on them 

So those inner demons you can slay 

So we don’t toss and turn in the beds that we lay 

So we become the man that makes the money not the money that makes us pay

So we put our happiness back on display 

Feel your feelings for the dead that decay 

But never let that grief be the weight that weigh

So much that you betray 

Everyone you know 

And the villain you portray 

Control your feelings 

Don’t let them control you

For you hold the controller to change your own view 

For you are the clay maker don’t let the clay mold you 

For you are the sinner don’t let the lies become true

By Cameron Foster