Such is Life

What is the nature of love?  Does it grow, wilt away,  fall from trees, and blow away like leaves? Is it really meant to be? Tish Lauren perfectly portrays  the falling out of love experience in her poem, Such is Life.  In this life, we have many love experiences, but what we must remember is to learn from each and every one of them ....until we find the love that infinitely  blooms.  Thank you Tish for your soft words.
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- Faith

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Such is Life

Such is life.......
These three words have somehow become
​my best friend and my worst enemy 
I guess I should call it my frenemy 
When I first spoke them it was like
Speaking life into me
Yet, now, somehow,
it's like I'm speaking the end of me
The end of what I believed in
instead of the beginning of what I wanted.
I believed in love at first sight,
Unbreakable connections,
Life and love didn't require any direction 
Because ..... 
what's love if you have to have a road map?
I'd rather be lost in it, 
happily lost, of course 
Just me and him...and him and me.....
Wandering aimlessly in the streets 
Not because we had nowhere to go
But, because it didn't matter 
where we needed to be
And all the while, 
I'd be chanting such is life.
I was freed of the requirements and misery 
and the rules and regulations on how to play the game of love 
But that chant, soon changed love.
It became the visions of spring leaves
no longer being green ​
Slowly changing to orange
and then brown 
Falling slowly to the ground
Not even making a sound
The same way the carefree love I felt ended. 
Quietly.
Like our time could no more be extended.
He wanted to break out the rule book
Time is up! 
This type love isn't going to work for us.
That us, really meant him
there was no we in those leaves
falling from the trees
It was just me.
And, 
in order to land softly on my feet, 
in order to cushion the emotional strife
I had to chant again, while falling, such is life..... such is life.

Tish Lauren


​2017

About the Poet

An imperfectly perfect creative spirit who loves all genres of art, but has always shared a close bond with unspoken thoughts. She believes that words not spoken aloud, but written on a page are the truest representation of self and the essence of who we are and what we believe to our core. 

​Instagram: @tish.lauren

Tish Lauren

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"Living Mindfully"

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