Survival, the only necessity in life Is surely comprised of struggle and strife An endevour of stasis and preservation Adversity the very fabric of being To be human is to hurt Pain, a condition for life Inseparable from existence It enables and disable the ability to be And so they command one another But must this cycle be unbroken? Woe, the key of continuance And survival is to live... Life through necessarily painful Is not essential in itself It needn't happen, is a bestowing Accident or chance This, it's most terrible wonderful secret Tis a blessing and a curse Birth seems an anathema Full of cries and wailing Humanity begins in utter discomfort How augural a welcome And so we live... i live... And here is our very burden To not abort what eventually still ends To invert the agony, the very air, And we begin to appreciate