What Is The Meaning Of Life

What is the meaning of life?

Asked me in vain, crying before the mirror;

My imperfections glaring at me

Like a meteoric apocalypse.

What is the meaning of life?

Said he as he strode towards the gallows;

Awaiting his miserable end,

A slow, painful demise.

What is the meaning of life?

A poem like this asks;

Several times to the listener

Whose impatience exceeds all else.

What is the meaning of life?

What is it that we have been born to achieve?

What, do tell me, is the reason behind my existence?

That, naught but a mystery.

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