Here for the Ride

"Here for the Ride"

The flickering flame

     of candle light

     dances over my face

     as I contemplate every regret

     my life has ever made.

Not me! mind you.

I'm only a vessel

for experience.

I'm not responsible for the choices 

that are made by this life,

for every decision already exists.

I'm just here for the ride.

Just to feel every emotion

this life has experienced.

To make it real

among the cosmos,

just so it has a witness

so it can justify its existence.

Don't ask me anything!

I don't know a Damn Thing!

I'm just here for the experience.

Now let me sulk inside a dark room

to watch a candle flicker

before my eyes

contemplating suicide

as I down another glass of Jack.

-Armando Torres