Life Lives

By Bruce Clifford

Feeling so left out within the realty of these dreams.
Taken by surprise in this world of make believe.
Do you even know what I need.

Falling from the clouds deep from underground.
Thinking of other galaxies without ever making a sound.
How did we get here while this earth is still so round.

Life lives
Life dies
Giant creatures
Little flies

Life grows
Life displaced
We live and die
Without a trace
I’ve never seen such a beautiful face.

Staying awake all night immersed in these extremes.
A chemical reaction in a world of fake plastic trees.
What happened to all those species from millions of years ago.
All these unanswered questions we might never come to know.

Feeling so betrayed by the powers of the unknown.
The universes messages are hidden and desperately shown.
What happened to the promise of peace on every land.
The greed and senseless killings we could never understand.

Life lives
Life dies
Giant creatures
Little flies

Life grows
Life displaced
We live and die
Without a trace
I’ve never seen such a beautiful face.
We came to be a part of this human race.

Feeling so left out within the realty of our scope.
Taken by surprise in this Milky Way of hope.
A cat killed a little bug and thought it was a joke.
The frogs jumped into the water to see if they could croak.

We might never know what we were never shown.

©9/2/2025 Bruce Clifford