"Life" is such a wide umbrella ; a word that covers many, many things, and everyone's experience of it is different. So let's narrow it down. Let's look at some poems about life that crack open how life can feel when we're struggling and things are hard. But also ones that put a balm on that wound. There's a lot of shit going on right now. There always is, but it's been particularly sharp and thorny lately and sometimes we need someone to put that into words we just don't have in us. Words that make us feel heard and understood, that acknowledge our pain and how heavy life can feel.

And sometimes we also need to get put back together again; to be reminded of the ways we can get through this, how we have overcome, and how, despite it all, life give us HOPE. Poems like that serve as a reminder that we are not alone, and there is still beauty to be had even if it's just in the form of a perfect line of poetry. 

What my body knows

is not a lie it's not

a lie I tell you it's not

it's nothing short of truth 

and nothing larger 

my past lodges 

in my marrow and if 

I wanted a transplant

there'd be no match

others' sorrow dwarf

my petty traumas still

the bones are mine

when they creak

when they moan

when they whine 

there's only one thing

I can claim these bones 

are mine I tell you 

they are mine and kind

to abandon no thing

that makes this pulse 

no one but me.