Dear Life,
I know how unfair you could be;
How you could give the child of a Pauper nothing to go on with save his breath and skill,
And then grace some other with a silver shoe,
And place both babes on the same race.

How you give a man with a heart of stone so much wealth and power to oppress,
And then give a cheerful hearted one a little more than his own breath.
Could you be a little less unfair?

Dear Life,
I know how mischievous you could be;
How you give the laborer the earnings of an ant
And cause the undeserving sluggard to stumble upon a glorious pot of gold.

How you give a girl with a fragile heart into the arms of a man full of deceit and lies,
To break apart completely until there is nothing left of her.
Oh dear Life,
Could you be a little less cruel?

Oh dearest Life,
I know how dissapointing you could be;
How you make a man toil round the clock
Wishing to one day break ground and find gold,
Only to return to dust at an early age, muscles and bones weak from labor;

How you give a man the riches of a millennia,
And then take his breath before he eats half of it
Could you, oh dear Life, be a little less tragic?

Dear Life,
I know how you bless the wicked with the swiftness of an eagle;
A swindler the craftiness of a cat;
And then adorn the child of the lowly with crippled limbs,
Or plagued with a hellish disease,
One never to be cured!

How you belittle the thoughts of the wise,
Making his plans come to nought
And ridiculing him with the gown of a fool;
Wherefore the empty guess of the cowardly
Proves true in the end.

Dear blessed Life,
I know how crooked you can be;
How you make an innocent naive man
Fall deeply in love with a woman of lying tongue,
A lioness with crooked ways to make a fool out of him;

How you give a man the pleasures of a moment,
Only to sap him of the juice of a lifetime,
Oh Life, I pray thee, could thou be a little less crooked?

Could you be a little less cunning
A little less unfair
And a little more equitable
A little less irrational
And a little more kind.
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Yours faithfully,
Victory H. Izevbekhai

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