Poem:

There are reasons to be around,

living on this earth –

Reason for pleasure and pain

that originate with birth;

reason for silence and sound,

assessment of value and worth

of all things we maintain;

Reason for giving and taking;

being honored or losing face

when breaking a rule of law,

possibly falling from grace;

reason for rationally making

peace, yet keeping in place

the likelihood of war.

Life is never out of reasons

and time never out of steam,

presenting each naked reality,

each vision and each dream .

There are reasons for all seasons,

it behooves us to esteem

in terms of life’s totality.

it behooves us to esteem