(being or leaving) 
to be 
or 
to leave 
truly we must have strength  
to choose  
to be 
because how strong  
are the reasons to stay? 
what is their fundament? 
is their fundament not only smoke 
in the sight of life? 
yet somewhere in us lies the strength 
to deem the reasons to stay as enough 
to be 
so admirable is our strength 
to choose 
to be