We are different
but bound together
each as a singular witness
to life's drama
and panaroma-
critics, dissenters, chafers
haters,  accusers, grumblers
few as such are
willing acceptors, embracers
non-contenders, life-lovers
having been punished
bruised, burnt, scalded
in the crucibles of time
and there's no remedy
for our  ugly ,scathing
and indelible scars

tossed in the endless
uncaring and tumultuous sea
each element of nature
is but a faceless enemy
that has no heart
to be benign to our humanity

we are each
first and last
a witness
to life's open-lidded
misery