Punch Line

Life has a way of tripping us up
and making us laugh
at the stupidity that is
ourselves
and our patterns
our beliefs even
and maybe our rules,
This happens everyday to everybody
and its the people that don't laugh,
that don't realize
their struggle is everybody's
that humans exist on an ever circling spiral
of repetition ,
We all feel the same
We all embark across the same themes,
it is those people that age into frowns
and tears
and self destruction
alienation
pity
and doubt
because those of us that realize we are just a punch line
we know how to push pain away,
We know how to love,
And why not?


(written 10/25/09)