Bask in the Lingering (Live)

And now we've come to the crux

The apex and the even horizon

But I have not some epic thesis

This more a rambling monologue

The an illuminating treatise

What is there to cull or gather

From this deranged utterance?

I want to say "since we are here,

Might as well enjoy the ride."

But find this trite and heartless

For many fail and end their lives

Still I cannot escape this fact

Survival and conatus reign

After all is said at days end

Mother nature, even i,

Go ever forth like it or not.

Understand it or not

Inertia is a mighty force

Perhaps our bane is asking why

And this is solely human

Disaffected in knowing how

We always beg the question

To what avail? to what avail?

Lower life has not this plague

That blessed curse unique to us

But ought we to suppress it

Shouldn't we instead engage?

It is with grief that I report

My still and ever present void

I do not know why I am alive

The urgency of my tortured soul

Does not necessitate an answer

But reason and humility

Encourage me to linger

So on I go, forever striving

To make sense of my environment,

And even enjoy it