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A Cliche View on Death


Life is a beautiful being, but death gives life meaning

One must find solace in the inevitability of death to truly be alive

Life is temporary, fleeting; but death is the end and the beginning

The uncertainty is terrifying to many, exciting to few

But life is what brings pain, the absence of life brings finality 

Sure, it hurts in the beginning, death brings forth horrid feelings

But the world keeps turning, the streams keep flowing

Death is the only certainty in life. 

 

Life is a wonderful feeling, but death brings true seeing

Death hurts only those who are alive, in death there is no pain

Is death really the enemy of life, or is it simply an eery dance?

A tangled web of life and death, intricately and strategically moving

The dance of life is futile in the face of death

 

The ineffability of the blackness clouding our vision

Entombing our minds and spirits while our body decays 

Returning to the earth, our rightful place, the only place

Bringing forth life from our death, starting the cycle again

As we drift from the dullness of life into the excitement of the unknown.

 
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