Such is life...

Tears of former grief cling to lashes,

like yesterday's rain cling to grass as dew.

no medicine enough for deep gashes

"such is life" is what you heard till you grew.

barely touching reality with words,

colours that we know keeping us at bay,

inadequate beings in infinite worlds,

there is only so much you see and say.

you shall see corpses rotten and mangled,

such is life, old and young all gone too soon

such is life, breaths left smothered and strangled,

not enough sun and rain, not enough moon.

never enough space in the cabinet,

life, words, sight, blissfully inadequate.