Death Is Not the Enemy

I have found myself at the threshold of death on several occasions. Each time I managed to look it in the eye, doff my hat and say, “I’ll catch you up the trail.” This is not to say that I am some special breed of hombre that casually defies death, for there have been many who have gone the way before me and managed the confrontation in heroic decorum. Nevertheless, death is not some evil state of being that only the brilliant or daring may defy; nor is it a release from the severity of life. If anything, death is the threshold of eternity. Life provides all known qualities, conditions, trials and tribulations that we encounter throughout the fruition of our purpose. Oh, death is not the enemy, for life provides our foes, The ills, disease and suffering… the countless other woes; For this is as it was ordained since Earth was yet to be, When life evolved on other planes, the eye will never see. We all embrace our time and grow in body, mind and soul. We foster wisdom, strength and faith, fulfilling every role. Prepared or not, the time will come, our form will waste away, While life goes on, as is ordained by He who plans the way. No, death is not the enemy, an end that one should fear. It’s but a threshold for the soul to doff its mortal gear, While life transcends its bond with Man to dwell forevermore With He, whose force conceived all life and is its very core.