Thank you administrators for the honor 🎖
The Cycle of Life
Life, birth, wedding, and death
Are the closed cycle of life’s
Unending strive to surmount its stresses.
The closed circle cycles in an infinite loop
Starting with an infant, needing an endless group
To help with the raising of those so dependent.
Youth and the need for friendship and peers
Is the first of many changes rolling fears
Into those struggling with new responsibilities.
Adults have to balance the circles
Of friends, family, spouse, collegues, and babes
Creating an equilibrium that feeds their joy’s
Rather than their emptiness, loneliness.
Seniors bend and flex back into a state
Of infancy, dependency, and put a stake
In what they perceive as the end, death.
But is death an end or a start?
Does the cycle end?
Or is it perpetuated in a new bend
That begins after one’s end?
What comes first: the beginning or the ending
The egg or the chicken, the mother or child?
Where does it all really end?
©️Malak kalmoni chehab ©️
My poetry book, Perfectly Flawed poetry for change, is available on all eplatforms including Amazon. It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.
https://www.amazon.ca/Perfectly-Flawed-poetry-Malak-Kalmoni/dp/1525582518
Poetry for Change 