Life Or Death

Up or down
  forward or back 

Polarity ends
  in a panic attack 

Start, stop 
  the stillness portends

The middle a wasteland
  lost years of pretend 

Before or after
  in front or behind 

Timing entraps
  with the devil’s design 

Salvation, damnation
  souls to contend 

To live or to die
  —to start or to end 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2018)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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August 17, 2018 at 10:43 AM
Thanks for sharing. Life or death is the age old question.. I enjoyed reading this very much. great work.
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