Life Is...

By Darren Hobson

Do you really know what life is? This poet will take you down a long, dark, country road showing you the delights and pitfalls of this journey we all have to take.

This is a free rollercoaster so get your safety harness ready and settle down and buckle up and be ready to be pulled and pushed around the bends, experiencing the highs and the lows of this ride.

Another fine work of art from this upcoming indie poet.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookRix
• Release date: Nov 18, 2016
• ISBN: 9783739601380

Darren Hobson

Darren Hobson was born in Preston,Lancashire in England and moved to Italy in 1998.Currently living near Rome working for a multinational company. In his spare time he loves traveling to historical cities for inspiration him to write more intense poetry. The poet started submitting his work for inclusion in many anthologies between 1990 and 2009, but with the help of social network sites and self publishing sites he started to publish his own books in 2014.

Book preview

Reaching.

The human race is just one of many species that habitats this world, we have to learn to share, to be educated and to gain knowledge in the hope one day all of this chaos makes sense. As we speed through childhood plonked into puberty without a book of instructions or a code of practice, so many questions go unanswered, we plead with mirrors, we write questions in our dairies, we cry ourselves to sleep, we reach out wanting to be touched, to be forgiven, to be free.

We are pushed from school into university, into work places of different designs, days turn into weeks and all we have ever dreamed of feels so far away, we are caught in a whirlpool that drags us along like no tide will ever do, the undercurrent just drags us through life.

We have to be strong to ourselves, we have to be strong to one another, we should look around us and look for people who are fighting this battle, as well as others, by themselves, to keep going we have to fight against many things against illness, prejudice, racism, into the mix is thrown religion and vice and soul crushing thoughts.

We are reaching up and we are reaching out

Trying to figure what life is about

Reading and observing

We are constantly learning

Our souls need to be fed

By the constant desire

The need to know

Why we are all here

We look at one another

With hate or with love

We look to the ground

And we look above

We are reaching for something

That is not always there

We are living a life

That seems cruel and unfair

As our dreams crumble

And our stance tumbles

As our being is eroded away

Trying to push ourselves

Through another chaotic day

We are reaching

We do not know why

Instinct

Animal

Pleading

Breeding

Wondering

What life is?

So my friend this is another journey, I hope it leaves something behind, a new thought, a new way of thinking, as we all continue this battle, as we all nurse the people we love back to health, as we lose people dear to us, shedding tears for people who were taken away too soon, everything we do is dedicated to someone, every day is inspired by something, we have to take the good times to cancel out the bad times, and when we see someone in need, it only takes a smile or a hug, to get them back on track.

There are a lot of evil people out there, they are not ghosts or demons or witches and they can be bankers, directors and presidents. These people destroyed the economy, made people unemployed and used and abused a nation.

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