The Space Between

The Space Between

I fear death more than dying.

Dying only happens once,

whereas death

goes on for a long time.

“To infinity and beyond!”

“Are you Toying with me?”

I hear you ask

“What me joke

about my own demise?

Well..

maybe just  a little.”

I have no God

and am making peace

with myself.

Peace enough to comprehend

that death is a fact,

a stone cold certainty.

So I’d rather fill

the space between

with poetry.

 

26/08/12

Reviews

[Lenny Banks]

Hi John, this poem is very good. I love your comparison between space (i.e. a gap) and the duration of someones life, something people percieve as a long time when really its relatively short.
Interesting to me, if I write a chapter of a book, I can fit a great deal of information into a passage and not communicate everything. Here you have 20 lines or a few sentences and you have communicated so much information, especially emotionally loaded points that make me (and probably others) thing a great deal. Congratulations, this is very powerful. Lenny

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Hi Lenny, Hope you enjoyed the Meetup. Thanks for this I do emotion as you well know! lol

[TheAdamBryant]

I fear death more than dying.
Dying only happens once,
whereas death
goes on for a long time.
i liked this part , it was so well said , nice poem

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thank you Alex you are very kind.

[TheAdamBryant]

i am always a kind person , that's how i am

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Don't change.

[TheAdamBryant]

i am never gonna change who i am , because i am proud of who i am

[Rhianne Ney]

I'm sorry if I can't relate with the no God issue and what ever your reason for not believing him is not my business so I wont offend you...
Death is sure fearful than dying because you can die literally... And that hurts...

[John Alexander McFadyen]

No I believe that anyone has the right to believe in what they choose. All too often it is a cop out as they use their belief as a way of not facing reality. Me I have learned to have faith in myself. Check out my poem 'Black Dogs'

[Rhianne Ney]

I'll do it...