Reason

Reason 

Give me a reason to live,

Dare not speak of love

For it's often been the knell.

Did I hear you suggest fine dining,

Spare me the twists of food poisoning.

Give it a deeper probe,

Let life present its best case,

Find me a cause 

To rouse and rise.

I heard you murmur 'propagation', 

I imagine I would be lost in the population, 

To die as a protestor or

Soldier ' in line of duty.

I could be the relentless worker, ant or bee,

Serving a social need.

Be kind to the value of life 

Find me a worthy premise, 

Then to argue human ego 

Exhibited within or at battle lines.

Say it loud 

It better be good enough.

Spiritual! You exhaled,

Made me pause and wander 

In the corridors beyond my mind.

I meditated and observed, 

In the layers below and beyond 

The reactions of the mind.

The question did echo

'Who am I'.

I did feel the stillness of an ocean,

Creation and creator did merge.

Give me a while to reopen my query 

Lest it sounds like a quest.

Give me some time to ponder and wander.

Let me soak some more

Of this ocean, 

Let me ask them the reason 

Let me not run into treason.