Thanksgiving, Day Sixteen

it's the things that you do over and over,
countless times,
that you sometimes don't want to claim is life.
but it is.
so you do it.
and that's all there is to it.
you can carry on,
less effortlessly,
less mindlessly,
more mindfully,
whatever you want to call it.
but you carry on.
i'm grateful, so grateful, to carry on
another year
another month
another day
another moment
in this life
as it is
right now