Mental Notes While Hiking

We could live

our lives

for ourselves

and only ourselves

as if this summer

in Eden

will last forever

we could break people

like the twigs

crunching beneath our feet

even as the leaves shielding

us from the sun

are dying

and falling

to the earth

where they were born

we could live for ourselves

and only ourselves

always feasting

but never finding satisfaction

always joking around

but never from a place of joy

for what is life

without a love

that comes from

outside ourselves