not sure if this is very ‘poetic’ but here’s my favorite

Hated by life itself

In the end, we’ll die anyway

You will, I will, one day all of us will rot away like fallen leaves

But regardless, we live on frantically–

Shouldering our lives, frantically, we live–

Killing, struggling, laughing, shouldering it all

Living, living, living, living-- just live

(song is hated by life itself, original is in japanese so this is a translation)