These Dirty Streets

THESE DIRTY STREETS

Life isn’t about buying a house

getting married

and landing a secure job at a

secure firm,

because then whose dream are you living?

Since when is a stable life a desired life?

Life is about all the mistakes we make;

those punches to the face,

and the ones to morale too.

Life is about running away to find

what you’re looking for,

and realizing its not there either.

Life is about being born in one place

and dying in another.

Life is about heartbreak,

Surrender,

Defeat,

and the Courage

those lessons teach.

So often do we move through Life

pretending to be well-adjusted,

happy, comfortable –

yet, it is only ourselves we are fooling.

When that day on the Death-bed comes,

and an instant replay of the last years

reveals that nothing original,

nothing incredible,

nothing remotely uncharted

or risky was attempted,

what will have been the point?

Copyright Oren Peleg 2009