If life is dull, 

try sailing across foreign dark seas 

on a moonless night

and keep watch at the lonely bow;

If life is comfortable, 

try fighting a tropical fever between seas

whilst the cold sweats drag you deeper

and deeper under the hull;

If life is hard, 

try making a living by pulling rickshaws of tourists

up and down a treacherous mountain

just so that they can take a picture

atop their crystal thrones;

If life is perspective, 

live, love and travel

through a reader’s thousand lifetimes

knowing all too well

that life is composed merely of

tides, moons and swells.