THE UNBICENTENNIAL MAN

To Isaac Asimov(1920-92)

Dying doesn't make a human being,

it makes a corpse out of flesh

and casts the mind to die

as flame in void dies.

Dying doesn't make a human being.

To desperately cling to life

with fading strenght and mind,

to hope when all hope withers,

that makes a human being -

the will to live and fear of death.

A human being is not a flame

that willingly dies in the void,

a human being is a challenge

mde against death, raging

against the undiverting fate.

08.03.2020