Mortal

This poem discusses how fragile humanity is and how quickly we will do whatever to avoid death.

Slivered metal and broken words,
Shattered glass and wilted dreams.
Gloomy petals, and splintered wood,
Empty promises and bursting seams.

Darkened joy and angered love,
Torn hearts, and deadly stars.
Vultures ravished the purest dove,
Innocence locked behind rusty bars.

Melting thoughts and frozen flames,
Unsaid prayers and unsung hymns.
Wishes now sought to maim,
To tear the soul limb from limb.

Softening bullets and fleeing pain,
Crying skies and blasphemous thunder.
Shortened breath and limited reign,
The reaper's back, our souls to plunder.

Our fate has come to claim us now,
Lest we part with our deathly infinity.
To revoke the laws which humans vow,
To lose any hope of heavens divinity.

We try to sell our souls to be which we are not,
Immortality, which all humans lust.
To cheat death we have savagely fought.
But lose and fade like human dust.

For mortality cannot be cheated,
It cannot be escaped in this life or the next.
We are doomed to live life depleted.
We are destined to slip away and die hexed.