There Is Only

There is no Happily ever after There is not even An ideal There is only reality As it always has been  And always will be There is only One event after another There is only time passing again There is only One day to the next Not everything all at once There is only joy and sorrow Acceptance and rejection  Action and thought  Day and night There is only peace and war Friends and enemies Hardship and abundance Ups and downs Agreement and disagreement There is only love and hate Questions and answers Cause and effect Truth and lies Misery and happiness There is only us And the denial of us And the persecution of us And the pain of being us There is only our understanding Our feelings Our hopes and dreams  Our opportunities and mistakes Our memories and  Our call to arms Our appreciation and  Our calloussness  Our perceptions and  Our pasts Our childhoods and  Our adulthoods Our children and  Our parents Our bodies and  Our brains and Our hearts