It’s just a use by date

What is mortality
but an end
to a beginning.

It’s just a use by date,
and with it comes
total exhaustion
from the last breath
that doesn’t count
for anything.

Reviews

[John the Baptist]

If you don't use it by the expiration date, do you go into the garbage can? Or do they give you to the poor?

[andrew mitchell]

I suppose in Russia you are thrown in the garbage. Don't want to make the poor sick!

[Stella Armour]

If it is an end to a beginning then a lot of us are in for some surprises ...
I have cared for a lot of people who have begged for an ending to it all without any thought of a new beginning :(

[andrew mitchell]

Poor souls Stella. Yes pain and cancer are terrible ways to go. Thank you for reviewing.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

every beginning has an end, and often we are allowed to go past the use by date...
many things are good past that date.
j.

[andrew mitchell]

Some things are best before rather than use by . Thanks Jacob nice to hear from you.

[Vol]

Andrew,
My first job out of high school in 1967 was as an orderly in the county hospital. I saw a lot of "last breaths," almost all of them were a blessing as powerful as the one that did not come next. What I learned was, don't die having unresolved issues with loved ones...
Vol

[andrew mitchell]

You’re right Vol and only the living will live with the regrets, better to get it off your chest before it’s too late. Thanks for reviewing.