Compliments of...

The orange flame of the forest, is a tree.

And a reference, to my best friends,

Who are stout of heart, and of spirit free.

They jumped off a bridge today, tethered to a rope.

And swung out over a meandering river.

They are bananas, my friends.

Yet to my lost soul, they are a glorious ray of hope.

Reason

Cellulose, lignin, keratin, sporopollenin,

Cytosine, guanine, adenine and thymine,

Uracil and all kinds of porphyrins.

Words, food, water and love,

The true fourteen children of the sea.

Are for their own sake, justified by their own existence.

Rewarded with reason, we must investigate,

The reason behind our own existence.

Is not life a miracle enough to warrant its own sustenance?

Who decides the cost of money?

Who will question the curious?

Who, pray, will answer our prayers?

Answers

Misery is addictive, like alcohol,

A byproduct of life-giving grain

It deludes and clarifies in equal measure

It is the water in both cloud and rain.

Misery feeds many rivers

Many civilizations it maintains

'Tis the cloud that exhausts itself

To usher in the rainbows of gaiety.

Self awareness is a white elephant

Misery puts it to work

When questions plague the sober mind

The answers are not found, but decided.

Every breath is a step closer to death

Every memory swallowed by time

But not all the misery of the universe

Can negate the truth of eternal life.