Jim Spagg
Happy Doodles Forever Jim! 

Being Alive

Being alive is to have been given the gift of life,

even though you never asked for it.

It's being conscious and having an awareness

of both reality and fantasy,

and if you're fortunate,

knowing the difference.  There is a difference.

Being alive is perceiving life through the five senses

of seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting and smelling,

and experiencing the synergy these create,

like a sixth sense, which we would call emotions.

it seems emotions present the most invigorating

experience of being truly alive.

Yet they may mislead us in the riddle of,

what is reality, and what is fantasy?  Is God real,

or the greatest creation of humanity's mind?

A mind is too good a thing to waste, do we waste

ours?  Fantasy is fun, but reality offers you the truth

of the fact that knowledge is power.

Being alive is big.