What is this Life supposed to be about?
this is a question
asked so many times
and as time passes by we begin to understand
that life isn’t winning
or how many presents we get for christmas
or birthday wishes
Life is about others

see, as a child
my Life was wrapped up in this
“i get what i want” attitude
well all the while i wasn’t satisfied
but as i matured in my Life
my Lifestyle
started to change styles
sorta like i was rocking a bad fashion
but when my passion
became others all of a sudden
my Life started to change

my loose change didn’t go into my piggy bank
it went in the church offering
cuz as a child that’s all i could offer
and a gratitude began to rise
as i stopped looking at the prizes
and started fixing my eyes
on who i was as a person

but i don't what to end this poem
acting as if the temptation is gone
cuz i often find myself kicking around
the idea of getting a new pair of kicks
and i find it hard to kick out the selfishness
inside myself as my selflessness becomes less
self less and more selfish
and in that moment i look at my Life and ask myself
“what is this Life supposed to be about?”