Value of life

When do you actually learn the value of life? During a terrible fate? When finding your soulmate? Or when it's already too late? A baby of 18 months learns to walk and talk of course after 18 months.

 

A Boy of 8 years learns to unconditionally love his family, only after 8 years of nurture.

 

18 years old and celebrating his graduation of high school. He's a studier, a researcher, a good worker, again only after 18 years of hard slavery. A young adult, 28 and going, a positive result. The church bells ring of joy and sing for that once-young boy who has aged and now engaged to a beautiful, well known wife, his emotions uncaged for life.

 

38 years from birth a body lies cold and dead on the earth. A shot or two when a conflict broke through, it's that beautiful girl he met in high school, in a pool of red they said, lying in bed when it struck her through her innocent, sweet head.

 

My baby of 48 wakes on a morbid, winters day, as my son shakes his way from the living room, hopes hanging low, ropes hanging low a noose is found lying around, laying loose on the ground, in my son's best suit, my son ties his life on a permanent contract of disowner-ship. A manic panic, a twinkle of regret and a hateful, familiar, sudden silence. Just like that, on a silver plate lies my son's regretful, sorrowful fate.

 

 

When do we actually learn the value of life? Soulmate? Terrible fate? Or when its already too late... 

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Hi! I'm pretty new to poetry and i only got a C in my English GCSE but I just wanted to try stuff, if you know what would make this poem better please do leave me a comment (this is pretty embarassing when being compared to professionals haha) But what i was going for was as the story continues, the more I (the author) understands the value of life and starts to use more words like "My son" and "Familiar" in oppose to the beginning to the poem when I say things like "He's" and "Only"/"Again"/"Slavery." Sorry if there's some mistakes in their or parts that dont make sense, if you spot some, do tell me please! :) None of these events happened to me, it's just an idea.

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Yes, its alot like that.

Yes, its alot like that.