What is Death?

What is Death?

Surely just us all moving on.

We fear it!

Yet think back in history,

The days of the Romans invading our territories.

The fire and plague in London and the ongoing wars.

USA with the settlers and then the horrors of civil war.

World War One and Two and again the horrors of death that proclaimed.

We were not there amongst it all.

We were not born or even alive.

Yet does that worry or sadden us?

We feel so relieved that we were not there.

Not to be alive in the past causes us no worry at all.,

So why O' why should it bother us in the future?

Reviews

[Nokycent]

Sounds well consoling. Indeed "...why should it bother us in the future?" Great poem!

[Christine Peters]

Yes I have thought about this a lot.

When we look back in history and see how our folks survived – we can feel so great that we were not alive back then.

Could it be so that we are just as backward as they were then – could it be possible that in the long future – many of us young folk (now babies of today), could not cope,

I think and believe that my time from the sixties was great. I don't want to live anymore into the future.

Christine Peters

[Nokycent]

Thanks Chris.

[Christine Peters]

Please explain.

[Christine Peters]

You have to admit - I make a good point. Poetry disabled.

[Nokycent]

Well i find this poem challenging the tendency of distancing oneself with the past or future for whatever reasons. So it is an invitation to learn to appreciate both the past and the future while cherishing the present moment. That's how it speaks to me. I wonder if i got it.

[Christine Peters]

I find your interest so equally challenging.

I somehow think you are so close to my thoughts.

It is merely about our demise.

We do not care about the past – so why should we care about the future?

I could have asked this same question to people in Dickerson's time. What we have now may be so old hat that people in the future may feel so glad that they were not alive in 2016.

Christine Peters

[Nokycent]

Now i get it! And so what's important is everyone's own life moment. Let's live this moment to the fullest. Again thank you for this poem.