'Self-destruct mode begun'


The automated voice declares


'Complete annihilation in 3...2...1...'


Aw sh**, life’s so unfair


The last thing you see


As your world explodes


Is a burst of flame rushing towards you


Just before your vision implodes


You dimly remember that unanswered question


About that infamous white light


But maybe that was just speculation


Maybe death is simply night


An all-encompassing black cloak


From which one cannot escape


The feeling making you wish to choke


Just to get away


But can one die within death?


A far-fetched idea, it seems to be


For what is gone cannot be lost, like breath


Still, the answer no one can foresee


You feel yourself rise on a draft of warm air


Only to look down and see the remnants of your life there


As you watch in fascinated horror


A heavy iron chain snakes around you shin


Like that of Jacob Marley, slightly shorter


And much to your chagrin


It tugs you back to the destruction below


Plunging you back to the way things had been


Caught between two worlds, tugged to and fro


But neither side is allowed to win


They speak in your mind, listen to a voice


Now it’s up to you


And you face a most vicious choice


Live again as a lie, or die for the truth