Your Death Is a Poem

Your life is a poem.
Your death is so too.

It's that yin thing.
Is it all illusion, confusion?

Poetry is a grand tapestry with wisdom sewn in-
shiny specks to find...
often the spaces between the words.
The voice of the poet is shared in all of us.

Everybody acts like they aren't going to die.
So how are you supposed to live?
No one wants to die-
yet everyone wants to get to heaven.

Nobody gets out alive.
Can self survive?
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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Pigeon Tart Avatar
August 22, 2018 at 5:04 PM
Love it! The priest that administered my Mother's last rites had a saying "life is a sexually transmitted disease with a hundred percent fatality rate" ;) xomo!
Gaul Avatar
August 22, 2018 at 5:55 PM
Your spot on take is most appreciated. So many contradictions, yet it is one of the most important things to us. Namaste.
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