A Matter of Life or Death

To be truly and fully alive is to be responsible.
To be responsible is to be able to give a response.

That is what separates a living thing from a dead thing.

If we give our responses based on how our friends perceive us,
If we give our responses based on how morally acceptable it appears,
If we give our responses based on how our government will punish us,
If we give our responses based on how our priest will reprimand us,
If we give our responses based on the rewards that are set up in front of us,
If we give our responses based on a system constructed around us,
If we give our responses that are contrary to our personal truth,

Are we actually responding?

or are we following a response handed to us?

A response commanded to us!

We were given life! LIFE!
And yet we have chosen death.

A comfortable, easy, thoughtless death.

Come alive! Come alive! Come alive!

Take the controls of life!
Stop being so damn fake.
Have we ever been real?
Our life is running out…
But are we even alive yet?
Or are we pretending to be a dead thing?

Are we responding?

Do we love ourselves enough to be ourselves?
Or will we continually choose hate and repression?
Are we going to be grateful for being alive?
Or are we going to be ungrateful and give up what makes us alive?

We all must choose.

It is a matter of love or fear.
It is a matter of life or death.

To be or not to be…
That is the question.