TURN AWAY FROM DEATH

There is no more pointless subject for poetry

than death;

grief, sorrow, fear

of live's end -

yes, but death itself?

The antithesis of everything that is

or can be?

No.

Let the void be,

look away from it,

write dirges for the lost,

elegy for your years

gone and growing

shorter; give voice

to the fear.

But death, death

beyond that?

Let it be.

14.01.2019