Life...

Life...

Isn't always how it's made...

Life...

Can be how it's perceived 

Multifacet views...

And yet we're only inclined 

To pursue our own 

Life...

Isn't always how it's made...

Life...

Can be how it's perceived 

Choices of words

Often defines intent 

Compassionate or egregious 

Life...

Isn't always how it's made...

Life...

Can be how it's perceived 

No matter how hard the soil was turned

From the rising to the setting

Generations of survivors 

Life...

Isn't always how it's made...

Life...

Can be how it's perceived 

From cries in the midnight hours

For the treacherous deeds of the day 

Approved in the sights of men

Yet carried in the hearts of those that remain

Life...

Isn't always how it's made...

Life...

Can be how it's perceived 

Refill after refill...

The illness never leaves 

It's called a disease 

If cured it'll bring the economy to its knees 

Life...

Isn't always how it's made...

Life...

Can be how it's perceived  

Fighting for freedoms 

Screaming of the government's overreach 

Yet there taxation with a receding representation 

Here's the olive branch...but watch the tree..

Life...

Isn't always how it's made...

Life...

Can be how it's perceived 

While today is one person's hope

It may very well be another's 

Worst nightmare

In moments instances abound where...

Life...

Isn't always how it's made...

Life...

Can be how it's perceived