How do I learn to live?

a poem by Anu Pillai

“I wake up in the morning for my day’s battle.”
“With the aches and pains of yesterday.”
“I stand on my aches and not on my legs.”
“I sleep on my thoughts and not on my bed.”
“There is only grief.”
“Oh! How do I learn to live?.”

“Oh! where is the way to my destiny?.”
“My childhood was in grief.”
“And so is my youth.”
“Oh! How do I learn to live?.”

“I listen to music.”
“But where do I comprehend?”
“Oh! How do I learn to live?.”