Life (The Choice Nobody Made)

Life is the one thing nobody chose,

It is a decision forced upon us,

And though most see it as a privilege,

Saying it is better to live than to have not lived at all,

Others see it as curse,

As they are forced to live a life of pain and misery,

Suffering everyday they open their eyes and breathe,

To these people, 

Life isn’t a privilege,

It’s as good as a torturous fate forced upon them,

These people even envy the stone on the floor,

Feeling that a stone is luckier than them for not being alive,

Most of them don’t see life as a curse because of pain,

They see it a curse because of time,

They have lived so long and done so many thing,

That the idea of continuing to live is pure torture,

Life becomes meaningless to them after living for so long,

And after living for so long,

The idea of death turns into a pleasant thought,

These people that see life as a curse consider ending it all,

Wanting to kill themselves just to free them from the curse of life,

A few of them actually go through with the unspeakable deed,

End their lived with their own hands,

Freeing themselves from life they did not choose,

And embracing the cold hands of death,

Most of them don’t end their lives,

Making the painful choice to continue,

With hope in their hearts,

That their lives would be worth living someday,

To those who believe in a life after death,

Death is not an option to escape life,

Because it would not free them from life,

As it would continue in the place of death,

And once dead they would not be able to kill themselves,

To those that find life too precious to end,

Tell me,

Would you still believe life was precious?

If you suffered like those who see life as a curse,

I do not ask you this question so you may hate life,

I myself enjoying living,

But I promise you this,

If I had suffered like most people,

The idea of death would be more pleasant than life,

And who knows,

Maybe I would have ended my life long before I wrote this,

To free myself from a choice of living,

The choice I never made.

Death, My greatest and most unlikely friend