Heartbeats and the fear of death

Heartbeats and the fear of death

A Poem by c_chachinated
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This is an existential piece focusing on the pourpose of life

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Life is so short

But you wear trousers a blazer and a tie

You make money and drive by

Watch the news you are sad some random people died

You are still too important to die

You have a dream to keep you alive

And god to count you more breaths than time

Because those that died didn’t have your tie

 

4 billion years ago the world was made

not even a fraction ago  and man was made

And now the world is  a man made drain  

The beauty and the pain

Global warming and a mattress

But still you cannot cure death

 

   

Through the generations alive  

Billions have cried then died

To the future we all are dead

To your children they mourn at your grave

A skull on a flag  a cemetery on a map

The beauty of death made art

 

I know its not normal to think about death

But death is normal even in perfect health

The truism that we all gonna die

And every birthday a countdown to the grave

Second by minute  by inch till it’s  six feet under their feet

 

It is sad to watch the world go by

Celebrating life just to forget we are dead

In a thousand years your life wont mean much

But thank God you got kids and the kids got kids

Because as long man still exists 

We achieve a species dream

To die for man to keep living

 

© 2018 c_chachinated


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c_chachinated
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Added on January 13, 2018
Last Updated on January 13, 2018
Tags: death, philosophy

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c_chachinated
c_chachinated

Nairobi, Athi river, Kenya