Our lives are very different
and yet so much the same:
each one suffers, each laughs
and cries, each reaches
for something and dreams
and fails and succeeds
but not as expected—or
exactly as expected until
something dreadful happens
and nothing is ever the same,
then maybe one day
things start to get better,
but at last it all ends.
Meanwhile, like an earworm
that just won’t stop,
a great song emerges, and,
if we are lucky, we learn
to hum along.
