Your Life is your Life.
Don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.

Be on the watch.
There are ways out.

There is a light somewhere.
It may not be much light but
  it beats the darkness.

Be on the watch.
The Gods will offer you chances.
Know them.
Take them.

You can’t beat Death but
  you can beat Death in Life, sometimes.
And the more often you learn to do it,
  the more light there will be.

Your Life is your Life.
Know it while you have it.

You are marvelous.
The Gods wait to delight
  in you.

Charles Bukowski
(August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994)

Animation and Illustration: Bradley Bell
Poem by: Charles Bukowski
Spoken by: Tom Waits
Music: Grizzly Bear - Foreground