Alive

To be alive.

To be loved and cared for

and rejected and admonished

To be strong and robust

and sick and injured

To be curious and capable

and confused and weak

To be heard and understood

and ignored and mistaken

To accumulate and create

and lose and destroy

To remember and cherish

and forget and abandon

To be counted on and needed

and dismissed and forgotten

To take it all 

and consider yourself lucky 

To be alive.