What Is Life? - Visitor's Poem

by Gina Batey
(Nashville, TN, USA)

What is life
if you haven't traveled down the road
of good and bad
easy and hard
happy and sad
ups and downs
left and right
crooked and straight
success and failure
trials and tribulations
shortcomings and forthgoings
freedom and locked down
sailing and turbulence
acceptance, delayed and denial
love and hate
abundance and shortage
open doors and closed doors
driving and riding
stepping up and falling down
dishing it out and taking it in
or if you haven't lived your life at all?