Life is for Survivors, 1980

Ten years is a long time...
It's almost 1/2 of my life,
or just 1/2 of knowledgeable life.
And it's all happened over again.


Love, war, hate, persecution,
 death, sickness, passion, lust,
  and everything else pulls together
to make ten years of life.


But, this ten years is different,
when it concerns life and what has
 come before.


Before, I had a blurry life
 with wasted dreams and
  nothing to live for
   but to breathe and
    breathe again...


Ten years is not a long time
for those who have been there
a long time, but for suicidal
lunatics--it's everything and
it's me.


Surviving is everything.
Ten years is nothing.
Life is dying.