What good is a day?
One day is .0028% of a year
If a person lives 85 years.
One day is only 1/30600,
Which yes, may seem like a long time
But, is it really?
Humans are given a limited time on earth
So what are we to do
With the time we are given?
Why do people take this precious time
Concerned with others,
Trying to control their lives,
Based on what they believe is right and wrong.
Racism, sexism, prejudice, heterosexism, etc.
What is the point?
If it doesn’t affect you
And isn’t life or death,
Why do you care?
Let people use the bathroom they desire.
So what if you’re uncomfortable?
Telling a young biological boy
Who was born in the wrong body
To use the men's room
Instead of the women's room
Is far more uncomfortable for them.
Why do you care?
If two men stand at the altar
And declare their love for each other?
Are they invading your home
Or stealing your children?
I think not.
So why do you care?
People’s argument
For marriage to be between
A man and a woman
Is that marriage is for reproductive purposes.
If so, marriage between
A 70 year old man and woman
Would also be “wrong.”
Then there is racism.
And people like Donald Trump,
Saying, “let’s make America great again!”
However, when exactly was America ever “great?”
Was is when we had slavery,
Or when you were assigned a bathroom or school
Based on the color of your skin?
No.
America has and never will be great,
At least not until,
Everyone is treated equal
And we all let each other live their lives,
And be their own person.

So still, what good is a day?
When we are born,
We are given a name
And also a limit on how long we stay on Earth.
So what do we want to do with this time?
What do we want to achieve?
What will be our legacy?
What is a legacy?
Realistically, does anyone actually have a leacy?
If your name is going to be remembered
It has to be in a history book
Otherwise, people just become
Part of an estimate of life.
When there has been a disaster in history,
Deaths just become a number.
Each person isn’t individually remembered
And that's sad.
However, would we rather
Have our name in a some book
For being a bad person
Or would we rather be forgotten?

What good is a day?
People, they live and die
Some accomplish great things
While others don’t.
So what is the point to all of the stress,
Pain and heartache
Endured during one's life?
What is the point?
What was it all for?
When someone dies
The people around them remain.
They feel sad.
They cry,
But they eventually get over it.
They complete the five stages of grief
And move on.
There will be a funeral for you
Where you are put into a wooden box
And placed in the ground.
There will be a rock to mark your territory
Which will display your name,
The date your were born,
And the date you died,
With a simple dash separating the two.
However, the dash
Is your whole life.
Your first steps,
Your college acceptance,
Your wedding vows,
The birth of your first child,
Your last words,
And everything in between.
But what happens
When the people who were in your life
Die or move?
Who’s going to visit your rock?
Who’s going to leave flowers
And carry on your memory?
That would be no one.
You stay in the ground,
Forever.
You are simply forgotten
The earth continues and yup, that’s it.

What good is a day?
People, we are all just coexisting
And the Earth, is what allows us to live.
It provides oxygen,
And a place for the human race
To thrive and survive.
But what happens if the Earth dies,
Or stops working?
What would happen then?
Nothing would remain,
No one’s life would be remembered
There wouldn’t be anyone to remember.
That’s sad.
So why are people,
Spending all this time fighting,
And ruining the Earth
Which provides us life.
We need to take care of the Earth,
For future generations.
Otherwise, what is the point
To our lives,
If we can’t help those after us?

What good is a day?
The earth has been around
For 4.543 billion years
And humans have been around
For only 200,000 years.
A blip on the timeline.
Entirely insignificant.
There was a world before humans
And there will be a world after.
So, again, what is the point?
Why do we go through life
Blindly following the path
Laid out for us
From birth?

So… what good is a day
If we don’t make the most of it.
Why do people wait to do things,
Like tell people how we feel,
Or go climb the grand canyon?
We all have bucket lists,
But how many people actually cross off,
All the items?
What are we waiting for?
A day is precious time
To accomplish something great.
We are given limited time because
It makes sure we know we don’t have forever.
It makes us not waste our time,
And strive to make the most,
Out of the time we do have.
If we all lived forever,
The earth would overcrowd,
And new minds wouldn’t be able to help
Make advances to our world.
Death is part of the cycle of life,
And it is everyone's responsibility
To live everyday to the fullest
Because any day could be your last.