Life and death
Death is part of life, and life is part of death,
and never the twain shall part.
It is life's constant marriage, that never can be separated,
never subject to divorce, never dissolved,
since there is no life without death
and no death without more life.
We do not know what happens after death,
since that is not for life to know,
it's not life's business to worry about death,
but we may assume, that death is no more
than a transient crisis of life,
like all crises of life.
The only mystery of death is its reticence,
it keeps quiet about its secrets,
and that is the only thing that makes death attractive,
its only attraction, in fact,
which is why it has to keep so absolutely quiet about it,
or else it would not exist
to make life so attractive.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2006-12-23 at 10:33
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