There’re reasons to be around

Liiving 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 ne’er out of reasons,

As time is ne’er out of steam,

Presenting each naked reality,

Each vision and each dream.

There’re reasons for all seasons

It behooves us to esteem

In terms of life’s totality.