LIFE doesn't require us
to be
consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry,
rational, thoughtless, rash, open-minded, rational,
loving, neurotic, tolerant, careful, rigid,
wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle, sick,
considerate, funny, stupid, healthy, greedy,
beautiful, lazy, responsive, foolish, sharing,
pressured, intimate, hedonistic, industrious, manipulative,
insightful, capricious, wise, selfish, kind or sacrificed.
LIFE does, however, require us
to live with
the consequences
of our choices