A Thought (or two) on Death

Someday you'd die

Would see your loved ones pass before your eyes

And you would be impotent to it

    but that's just the cycle of life.

Suffer, lust, greed, and agony
    will all come eventually.

Do you see death as someone you should be afraid of

Or someone you should await?

Do you see her as someone to scoop you into her arms

    and lift you up as if you were a feather on her wing,

    whispering words you wouldn't understand

    then take you flying towards the sky?

Or would she be the one to choke you with her slender fingers

    and your eyes reddening with bloodshot

While she whispers in your ears

    'bout the things you had left

    'bout the sins you had sinned

    and 'bout the souls you had crushed?

Would you feel relieved

    or would you feel suffocated?

Would you miss the things you did

    or the didn't?

Who would mourn,

Who would laugh,

And who would hold everything you had held?

When your eyes went blurry and ears tinnitus

You'd see her coming.

You might wait with your friends or your love,

But you'd see her coming.

You might wait with the entire mankind, your hands intertwining into each others'

But she would come

    and she would take you only.

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