Bound By Birth

And now what?
We fight wars our fathers lost
Encumbered by inherited debt from our mothers
When the end comes
We ask, at what cost?
Each new life serves as sacrifice
To pay what is left owed by others?
Being born is not a choice made by any
Even so, gratitude is universally expected
But what of the lives created carelessly
Of which there are many
Who are unwanted, unloved & then summarily neglected?
Do abandoned souls still owe appreciation to those by whom they’ve been rejected?
Could you simply get over it, let it go & move on? Find a way to accept it?
We are all thrust into paternally progenerated conflicts
Buried at birth in maternal arrears
When the search for purpose fails
It’s the fears, through the years that inevitability prevail.