I have lost too much in life already!

They sent me to this planet like this,
skin and bones without even so much as a kiss.

As time dragged out,
I learned to live without.

Since time would always persist,
I began to demand that and this.

Some I've given away freely,
but others not so easily.

Now that I am older and have less need,
I have within me what I lacked and it left me freed.

Yet there are some things that have no substance,
things you want that give you balance.

Those things we call love and friendship,
things I lost or were taken from me before this long trip.

So when they ask are you prepared to die for these two simple things, are you ready,
I will fight to the end because I have lost too much in life already.