DEATH
Here, on the run to eternity
Where sleep slips deeply, eternally
Where dreams dim gravely
Where vanity takes on the grave reality
Equal in death
In equal depth
Staying still in earth’s depth
Till the dust equals up with the dead
Here in the hereafter
Where we lie after the life that was
Where we sink six feet deep
Where we remain in the cubicle fit to size
The same size
Here, where in modesty we lie humbly, thereafter
In equal depth
In equal size
Lying till the day we rise
Still lying through the days when we dwell in death
Here, where death lies under a ceiling of trees
Where death inhales the oxygen hovering around the airy graveyard
The eerie green yard
Where death ceases its breath
Here, where refreshed air goes around but comes around the trees
Here, death lies in serenity
In security
Laying all horizontally
Here, the tomb lies in no dread of the bomb
Silenced, quarantined
No fear looms in the horizon
In the daylight
In the moonlight
In the midnight
Death lies in serenity
In security
In tranquility
LIFE
Here, life lives chasing after the wind
Here, life lives racing for wealth and fame…of all kinds
Here, life lives seeking more of the same kind
In mansions of straw
In castles of loneliness
In sands of haughtiness
In hopes of emptiness
Here, life lives in the dread of fear
Here, where life ends at the end of a gun fight
Where fear livens up to the exploded bomb
Where the bomb takes life into the tomb
Where life dies to fear
Here, where fear rises to its morbid state
Here, life lives under the greenhouse effect
Here, life inhales chills from a degraded climate
Here, life degrades from illnesses to frailties
Here, life weakens unto hopelessness
Into lifelessness
Where life leaves the last man to learn from the dead
