Truly, to fear death is absurd
most of us don't know how to live
If you think that being alive
is the same as living, you're dead
already, one foot in the grave.
Truly, the problem is not death,
we glorify the dead in print
with the cult of celebrity,
the obituaries remind
readers, one day your time will come.
We all give payment to Charon,
the ferryman of the rivers
in Hades, in the Underworld,
for he takes the obol, a coin,
from our mouths, a symbolic fee.
The price we pay to accept death
is nothing in comparison
to the fact, we give this one life
very little heed, the body
as temple is quite laughable.
Until you see a corpse appear
more beautiful in death than life.
Sadly, none of us take the time
to breathe in life as a challenge
only mountain climbers accept.
Why do I fear life more than death,
the media brings death to us
like a cat who drops a dead mouse
at our feet, they show us a world
where death is more significant.
Everyday we accept changes
we did not create, didn't choose,
didn't protest, didn't resist,
little by little, we accept
how others envision the world.
What does it mean to truly live?
I imagine my every dream
fulfilled: to play the drums again,
to teach yoga, run marathons,
climb mountains, have a family.
Unless I sacrifice mundane,
quotidian means of living,
work itself is a form of death,
if the work is not meaningful,
truly significant to you.
One day, I will learn how to live,
I will this, my resolution,
a decision I cannot break,
for life is more precious than death,
let us glorify the living.
