Quo vadis?

Nowhere



One day soon
will be my last

it may not be tomorrow

but it will come
it will come fast

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the sun will rise
like any day

but it will set without me

I will be gone
but it will stay

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When I am gone
I won't be there

and some people will miss me

and yet
I'll have gone nowhere

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though my stay here
is but brief

and my days are numbered

when it's over
I won't leave

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Death's cold embrace
must be for me

the end of life's short journey

a final stop
I'll never see

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Yes, I will die,
that's common sense

it cannot be avoided

and cannot be
experienced

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What point is there
to fear what each

must journey to incessantly

but getting there
will never reach?

******************************

We will die
and death is real

but we will never get there

and death's embrace
we'll never feel




© Pino Carafa (rozeboosje) reserves the right to be recognised as the original author of this work - 18 February 2008

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[DarkJakul]

Astounding penmanship and presentation. 5 stars and a fav.

And one last request: MORE!

[rozeboosje]

Thanks! And thanks for subscribing too. I post a lot of videos on dry topics, but occasionally I do post a poem. I'll do my best :-)

[auchraw]

This is nice. If death is real but we will never get there it must be infinitly small.

The fear of individual death is tied up with religion and the invention of the individual soul. Tribal peoples (Youtubers??) live in circular time and so their individual death is of less significance as everything else carries on. In other words immortality is other people.

[rozeboosje]

There is that too. But there is no real "immortality" where the individual carries on. We are going to die. But we will never "be dead". I compare it to "being on the moon". I will most probably never "be on the moon". That doesn't mean I'll spend an eternity away from the moon, it just means that I won't get there before I die. And the same is true for death. I will never "be dead" because I won't get there before I die. When I die, I cease to exist and I cannot "be" anything, including "dead".

[TheModestAgnostic]

lovely work:-)

[rozeboosje]

Cheers

[rozeboosje]

Of course, but in the end that is just a symbolic way of "living on" after your death. "True" immortality doesn't exist, and I'm glad too. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

[rozeboosje]

Thank you!

[rowsdowersavesus]

nice one

[rozeboosje]

The gauntlet has been thrown down!