A friend's death |
Leads to nothingness |
A feeling of fear sneaks in |
Piercing one's own mortality |
Making everything uncertain |
Making everyone seem fragile |
Trinkets in a house of glass. |
Avoidance leads nowhere |
The inevitable cannot be denied |
Yet we attempt to change it |
Pumping up and primping |
Trying to be more than we are |
Trying to avoid our own end |
Worms in a bird's nest. |
© September 1997 ~~ISM
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