Continue.

Sometimes I sit back in my chair,
think to myself, how can I go on?
How is it, despite what I am going through,
I can still continue in what seems to be
a normal, even active, life?
Then I look around me
in my thoughts
at my friends
and realize
I am not alone in this.
Others are going through so much
it makes me think,
How can they go on?
How is it, despite being worse off than myself,
they can still go on?
How do they still have time and energy
to be my friends?
I do not understand it.
I doubt they do either.
We just accept it,
and continue.

-Miostiek, 12/16/98