The Maybes Of Dying


    [ May 21st 2009 ]

    He hasn't long turned 70. You'd think he'd be a bit more wary but he thinks he's invincible and will be the last man standing. So doesn't find time for serious writing. Tells himself he wants to but it’ll just have to wait. But he finds time for fun with a Smudge of a kid and a travelling bear. Poor fool can’t hear the clock ticking. Tick tick tick like Peter Pan’s crocodile and then SNAP! and it’s dying time because he isn’t expecting crocodiles at his time of life. He gets back up because he was never a quitter then tick tick tick SNAP! again from a whole new direction and suddenly he’s lost sight of who he is and where he is and what he is. But still doesn’t serious-write his way out of it. ‘Cept for this one bit. Which is pretty serious. But looks a touch lonely. Plaintive.

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  THE MAYBES OF DYING 

Maybe,
we simply die naturally
because our heart stops beating
and then there’s
nothing 

Maybe,
at that moment of stopping,
the irreversible and monumental nature
of what we have just decided to do
is just SO great
that all life forces become suspended
not unlike that first ever jump
off the high board at the pool 

Maybe,
our spirit flies away
at Einstein’s absolute speed of light
and so Time stops
stops dead
so maybe
we all go on living
forever
in that nanosecond of our death 

But maybe,
the Creator has devised something
just a teensy bit more worthwhile
for eternity
God, I hope so 

    T.R.E. (2009)

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