Best Deathchild Poems


Underdeveloped Concepts of Death

A child's nightmare
Consists of evil beings

And scary faces
That supposedly inspire fear...

But, a child does not know
Death nor
          Blood nor
                   Violence nor
                                 Evil.

What then, does the child fear
If not death?

Then again,
                 What is Death
                                     But the unknown!

Do children fear the unknown?
If so, then
             Why do they seem
                     To embrace It with open arms?

Perhaps this underdeveloped concept of Death
          That toys with us in the early stages of our lives

Is the only truth
And the only lie
We will ever need

In order to keep us alive long and pointlessly enough until we, Death's theatre,
Cease
To be entertaining
And
Die.
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Count Your Blessings

18 months ago he married
late
the love of his life 
and in january a child was born
a cough he couldn't cure
was lung cancer
3 months later he is dead
dead
gone to the child to the woman
gone to his mother, his brothers
and all who loved him
life is short
chances are few
count your blessings

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