Life

• Sebastian Nash, Grade 8
• Poetry
• 2014

Life is birth; life is creation
Life is war

Life is love; life is a mother and newborn
Life is divorce

Life is art and beauty
Life is vandalism

Life is energy, sustenance and growth
Life is starvation

Life is peace and understanding
Life is genocide

Life is philosophy, truth and reason
Life is a despotism

Life is freedom; life is civilised
Life is Abu Graib

Life is immigration and cultural diversity
Life is Manus Island

Life is humanity and empathy
Life is Auschwitz

Life is Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Mabo
Life is Hitler, Bashar al Assad, Kim Jong-Il

Life is hope
Life is despair