The Meaning of Life

I simply want to live life.

I don’t need to ask the tall trees how they grew,

I only want to stand beneath their branches,

Feel their vastness, their quiet strength,

Let it sink into me.

I don’t want to question the river’s path,

I want to watch it move,

Endlessly.

Flowing, stretching into the distance,

Its journey becoming part of my own.

I want to absorb what nature keeps hidden,

Take it in without needing to understand.

I want to lose myself in it,

Like the sun,

Dissolving softly into the sea,

Fading without a trace, yet leaving light behind.

I don’t need to know the meaning of life.

But I want to feel it—

To know what it is,

In the stillness of air,

In the space between breaths,

In the moments that simply are.

Written: 2024