Secret Of Life

If you knew
Life isn’t a promise, but a taken breath,
you were just waiting death,
dreams are diseases of mind,
love existed but of the basest kind,
selfishness is all you will ever find.

If you knew
you will be a stranger all your life,
time’s a funeral pyre of your desires,
truth was a lie, all search was futile,
You were in Hell all this while, and
Heaven’s a toy to keep you from crying.

If you knew
the ‘one day’ you wait for never arrives,
you are dead in most hearts before you die,
the rest just pretend to see you for a price,
what you seek has already been destroyed,
‘hope’ is a sadist’s way of keeping you alive.

If you knew the secret of life,
Will you still want to live or die?