The Answer Is Life Poem by Kenneth Maswabi

Life was not meant to be forever beautiful
Or hazy, dry and rigid
Life is an ornament that needs your attention
It is a flower that needs to be nourished
It is a sky that is full of uncertainty
Life is a door that leads to your true self
It is a mirror that holds the sacred image
Life is a canopy in a jungle of emotions
A tree with many nests
Life is a pyramid for the ancient to be known
A miracle for the unknown to be seen
Life is a pendulum of joy and sorrow
A roller-coaster of beauty and ugliness
A prelude to the most amazing existence
Or a painful existence before the dawn of awareness
Life is a painful sore that needs to be punctured
A scab that needs to be addressed
Life is a myriad of simplicity and complexity
An institution of learning and unlearning
A bastion of hope and a river of extreme desires
Life is not a puzzle but a muzzle
To restrict and retain the inner self
To release and pour out the outer self
Like a fantastic dream
Life is folded in a mysterious vase
You need to unbutton yourself to see it
It is the sacred tabernacle of mercy
The template of grace
Life is the answer to all problems
The problem to all answers
Life is the epitome of your best attributes
And the valley of your tears
Life is the common denominator
In an equation of joy and sorrow
Life is the unrestricted prescription of mercy
The unsaid word and the echo of hope
Life is you and me, together as one
Life is the human spirit enshrined in the temple of humanity
Life is the absence of logic and the presence of you
In an everlasting ocean of awareness

©Kenneth Maswabi