Life And Lifeless Poem by Chan Mongol

LIFE AND LIFELESS
Poem by Chan Mongol
December 4 of 2021

I left home, home sweet home in nineteen seventy one;
I never could have done well for a safe passage to return!
Meanwhile, all of my loved ones gone, one after another;
For whom I am still living and lived a selfish life ever?
As an older citizen, I ask myself how long will I last?
Things are getting tough and prime life is bygone too fast.
When you take loans from kind and honest people;
You must return all to them, otherwise, you will burn in hell.
Love and life, I only got from blood family members;
But nothing I could have returned for their favors!
So, what I do? I cry secretly and bring them in my sight;
I ensure them to repay from virtues if anything I did right.
I found that life and homes are only illusions what don't last;
Now is there, now isn't and nothing in earth we can hold to trust!
Lifeless are stone, water, soil, Sun, moon, stars, milky way;
They live with lasting life and homes, that's what I mean to say.