When Life Sucks... Poem by Mangesh Sonawane

When one is lost
In the tangles of life
Inextricably messed up
In problems and strife...

One thinks, enough,
Running out of luck
This is the time when
Life starts to suck.

Far from optimism
When all seems wrong
No pleasure in romance
No wonder in song.

No beauty in nature,
No grace in the sky
No coolness in the ocean...
And then one begins to cry.

There's no peace inside
No love in the world,
One is lost, and all alone
In the darkness unfurled.

Distrust from one's own
Stabs wounds deep in one's heart
From whence flow tears of blood,
All hope ripped apart.

When life sucks so bad
One wishes for the end
Of luck, or life, it matters not,
Because neither seems to mend.

Yet one continues to fight
Against one's inner despair.
For what, we know not
When no one seems to care.

Death would be welcome
Than living with such pain.
For what does one keep fighting,
When there's nothing left to gain...?

But when one has ambition,
Those fiery flames within,
When one is driven by passion
Burning beneath the skin...

The thoughts of others matter not,
When one's goal is their desire.
When something is worth fighting for,
What's living a while in fire...?

One does then cherish the pain,
The reminder of one's passion
When one has nothing left to lose
Where's the need for motivation?

One thinks of nothing but the goal
Giving strength to carry on,
And stop at nothing to get at it
Despair long since gone...

When one has a purpose, a goal, an aim,
Something in life to achieve,
Life then begins to seem to glow
And joy it seems to give.

Life no longer seems to suck,
As it just did before,
And when one thinks back upon those times,
They seem so long ago...

When life no longer sucks again,
The beauty of life appears.
The reason to live, to love again
Blooms beyond all the fears.

Romance seems pleasurable again,
The wonder back in song,
Optimism seems back at hand...
Now nothing seems to go wrong.

Nature's beauty, the graceful sky,
The cool ocean beckons.
One has all but forgotten away
The mind's inner demons.

Now life just looks so wonderful,
It's all in one's perception...
Did life really begin to suck,
Or was it all just a deception...?