Death of My Brother
Life is fleeting, they say;
Here now, gone tomorrow,
As the adage goes.
In the blink of an eye, you're born;
In other blink, you die.
Are we reborn afterwards?
Do we go to an afterlife,
A heaven of peace and happiness?
An unsolved mystery.
This elegy to death,
To the mystery of an afterlife,
Can we hope?
Or shall we just wonder
Until our last breath
What's after death?
Perhaps an elegy to life,
To say we lived it well
And leave it up to the Almighty
To do what has to be done
After living this life.
Hope, just hope,
It'll keep us sane,
And at peace with ourselves.
Copyright © Ed Farolan | Year Posted 2018
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