Lift, Lilt & Tilt Of Life Poem by John Sensele

Life, free gift to treasure
Once given, many times forgiven
Sometimes treated like leisure
Sometimes forsaken and mistaken in vain.

Life, free gift to enjoy
Once given, many times gone to waste
Sometimes treated without joy
Sometimes given a tone with neither odour nor taste.

Life, free gift to nurture
Once given, many times developed
Sometimes forced into a cul de sac without a future
Sometimes egregiously enveloped.

Life, free gift to appreciate
Once given, many timed invested
Sometimes treated to depreciate
Sometimes dourly divested.