living life to the fullest

living life to the fullest

somewhere, somehow

through a downward spiral

of thoughtful consciousness progress

began to shed it’s mindless, originating

context

complex and full of heart pounding

alarms sounding

the end of a day,

a minute

a second

constantly calculating the life lived in the seconds that passed

trying to right the wrongs before the next second should pass

cause it could be the last

forcing us to act fast

to make that second count, make it last

hurried in a flurried

unfocused frenzy

of a race against the clock now

surface sentiments passed through generations

from the top down

burning out, refocusing

and drawing it to a stop now

is no longer a preference or opinion

it’s all that we’ve got now

the required revision

given

to the well intended definition

of life to the fullest

we all ought to be livin

so we take some steps back

to get a better view

of the factual fragments that define full

varying from life to life

from me to you

and find the one common clue

that life lived to the fullest

embraces every moment it lived through

the highs, the lows

the black and the blue

white lies you held on to

broken hearts that laid on you

projected fears driven in you

peer pressure given into

a milestone 

a breakthrough

dreams that slipped through finger tips

and the ones they held onto

saw follow through

lies minds convinced bodies to be  true

open hearts and eyes reminding the body

of everything it already knew to be true

the hurt a life will never undo

the love a life will forever shine through

living life to the fullest is embracing

the wars we’ve won

the lessons we’ve learned

and everything in between

seeing the beauty in ugly

the spontaneity in routine

the moment cognitive knowledge

transfers to the emotion

and we fully understand what it means

to live every moment of this life to the fullest

living in our reality

the life we always pictured in our dreams