Life waits for no one
She continues with or without you -
Your breath stops
Your heart slowly counts
D
O
W
N
its final thumps
Ba-dum
Ba-dum
Baaaduummmm-----------

There are billions more
The human species goes on
Despite pain
Despite sorrow
Despite wars
Despite famine
Despite pestilence...
Despite epidemic, pandemic, pandemonium
Despite generational curses which keep souls bound
By demons seen,
Unseen

Unfathomable strongholds
Winding around and around
Bodies, minds
Singular, plural
Piercing hearts like poisoned arrows

Crippling, belittling, degrading
Decaying the matter,
The mass,
The weight,
The energy of a YOU -
Transforming this SELF and paralyzing the entirety of what you consider to be
LIFE.
A heap of bone and blood.
Worm food.

And yet! You, deceased, does not equal discontinuation of
LIFE - she goes on.
La la la la life goes on...
And her counterpart,
her archnemesis,
Death, oh dark, handsome angel he is,
Waits for no one.

You hate the thought of him
Wrapping his wings around your being,
Carting you off, away,
From the continuation of life...
Sweet, beautifully-traumatic life.

You run from him,
Try...