To live or give up living Living is more of a suggestion Wether you suffer the aches and pains Of the depressing ebbs and flow Or you face life head on Getting past the insurmountable odds To die, to be free from overwhelming anxiety That comes with the natural flow of life We all want to be without strife And maybe by dying we are transported Possibly to a better realm of existence There's the problem though When we die where will we end up? Eternal grace? Horrible eternal punishment? When we push away these normal feelings You take a moment, to honor that choice Because that anxiety makes the struggle of life seem that much longer Why would you choose to prolong such pain? The people who hurt you, others so proud of themselves they can't even see their flaws The hearts broken from careless past loves, when proper justice seems like inaction, the politicians that don't seem to take the oath of office to heart, and the pain that comes with the patience of waiting for the wrongs to be righted, but if not you to bear these weights of depression then who would take the toll? You stay quiet in public but take on the world in the little uneasy rest you can hardly obtain Taking all this on not knowing what is yet to come when death arrives at your door and no one you know has entered into death and returned to tell you of its glory or it pains and you have no idea if you have the will to carry on with no idea of reward in death And yet we deal with issues at hand not knowing whether it will be better or worse when we finally give up and die? These ideas haunt the back of everyone's mind and makes even the strongest of us cower in fear of not knowing what's next Although we may approach the day with sunny disposition a shadow of doubt is in the back of everyone's mind We may do something heroic or brave or possibly selfless But with these thoughts in the back of our mind at all times These amazing acts seem to lose all merit