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Death With Only Oneself To Blame

Death comes to us all I know I am not that dumb I just feel or see no point at this particular time rubbing the fact in This is in fact the second funeral I have been to this week alone It's just that now I am slowly getting older myself It's steadily brought it somehow closer to home That one day soon I myself will alas also be dead and gone And probably not many people will too my funeral come As never was or have I been married or had any children of my own And that is both a sad but true reflection and sobering reality of my life Not even the flower sellers will probably remember me as everyone else that I have known or met As I have not even anything to leave behind apart from a barrel load of regret and endless disappointment To cover and fill my grave and coffin up with Yes most certainly death comes to us all indeed that is an unequivocal fact Only difference being some amongst us will tragically be missed Whereas there are others of those of us who won't And that is no 1 else but our own fault we have no 1 else other than ourselves to blame in the end We reap and gain out of life what we put in and sow As apart and apart from in this here life where the good stand out In death we are all the same difference being we are all dead and no 1 cares at all There is no further to fall from grace whence we are firmly entrenched 6 feet under ground with the living carrying on about with their daily business and life as per usual above Hopefully taking and learning precious and valuable lessons from our mistakes And not left paying the price for the ones we left behind that even our death was unable to fix and put back together

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