Four Letter Words

Sandwiched in between
those five letter words,
birth and death
are all the four letter words,
starting with life
then adding love, care,
kind, help and wise,
toss in body, mind and soul,
so what we discover
is they all are things with energy,
action part of their reality
functioning best as verbs
where you are doing something
instead of just be a slug.

So we have to embrace
that as proof of being alive,
just keep moving and reacting,
because once you stop,
can’t act in any way,
dead is your definition
and that is a noun,
don’t you know?