An Ode to Life

An Ode to Life – a poem by P.K.Odendaal – April 2018

Soft, tell me how you find life's purpose and life's mind

Are you the one who says life's fruits are all a mess

Let me not hear that you heart is full of fear

Because you doubt what life is all about

You tell me that life is pain and only grief remain

That the good that you have done did benefit no one

And each time you tried to rejoice it was with a hollow voice

Yet all the suffering and shame was repeated again and again

You accuse the world of hate and cry about your fate

Whilst you did not one time let your mind and heart forget

The trouble you have seen and the grief where you have been

As if some unseen lord was there to sell you short

How could you be so blind to leave your grief behind

Whilst it was just that fate that kept you alive of late

That made you feel the pain of others just the same

So don’t tell me there's no hope when you are hanging on a rope

I do not buy your story with or without its glory

Of all the things you've seen and the places you have been

If you've been there and did not share

Your hope and love of things above

Then you might as well abide with no one on your side

Alone you shall then travel while your life and hopes unravel