Charles Bukowski - The Laughing Heart

Your life is your life

don’t let it be clubbed

into dank submission.

Be on the watch.

There are ways out.

There is a light somewhere.

It may not be much light

but it beats the darkness.

Be on the watch.

The gods will offer you chances.

Know them.

Take them.

You can’t beat death but

you can beat death in life,

sometimes.

And the more often you learn

to do it,

the more light there will be.

Your life is your life.

Know it while you have it.

You are marvelous.

The gods wait to delight

in you.

Charles Bukowski, The Laughing Heart, Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories