Life's Rules

Life looks at us with its hard gaze Screening our essence with a sneer Wanting to see us Fall to our knees and cry out to it To stop punishing us the way it does, Whether by inflicting upon us emotional pain Or by depriving us of that which our body needs, Or even by taking from us, Those whom we love the most! But what life really wants to see blooming in us Is merely the acceptance of its supremacy over us Yes, life, at its base, wants us to understand That in its temporary realm We are to be happy and detached from its joys And its thorns, well aware that we shall Be there upon its soils for a while only! Carrying this mindset as our crowns, Wearing it as our most prized jewel, We shall then remain forever, as children, Playing in evergreen fields And having no care whatsoever For that which we keep biting our nails for, When nothing about life shall ever be ours to tame!