Lottery Poem by Phil Soar

I read my mind last night
Nothing in there to set the world alight
Nothing but memories
Keeping me sane
And reminding me of the short and intimate spell we are here
Passing us by with indomitable speed
Days flow into nights
Weeks into years
And yet we only hang on to a thread of hope
One day we will win the lottery
But then
We already have
The lottery that is life

Imagine nothing like it
For it holds us together as our minds age
Filling our reservoir of cells
And building a platform for our very being
Making us all different in so many ways
Helping us move forward
And hanging on to nothing that is not familiar
Making us complete
And taking us to the next step on the stairway
To Happiness
For sadness should not be encountered unless necessary
And sometimes it is
So embrace it, then leave it behind
This Lottery that is life