Every Living Thing Will Die Alone

with everyone i share this destiny
to lose everything
at some point
in some time. . .

we all become equal

i know this

we will all, end up equal

i promise this

from that one thing inevitable

what will take everyone of us
to that last chance
after that one final
last breath

to be all alone. . .
completely

f*****g empty

truly

inevitably dead

  my dear

 we all will share this
my darling doll face

every single time eventually
such is our destiny

for every living thing,
  must die alone
 
(let me know if i'm wrong)

    maybe next time?

Author's Note

Reviews

[Zoya]

I often think how dying would feel like and what would be it's consequences (and who doesn't?). Sometimes, it scares me to bits, while sometimes, it doesn't. We all die, that's the ultimate truth. We all die alone, that's like...the most ultimate truth. What you did here is not easy at all. A truly evocative write!

[Davidgeo]

Thanks cat face. Stop thinking about dying, smoke some grass and masturbate.

[Zoya]

Sure...lol

[Lady Tyke]

The flow and tone of this is wonderful. A sense of hopelessness yet resignation of this simply being how life is. At least that is what I feel from this beautiful piece.
I'm a massive Donnie Darko fan and I genuinely love this. It has a Mad World feel to it.
A friend used to call me doll face so, while I already felt connected to the words, there was a jolt that felt like you were talking right to me.

[AYVID N]

We come alone too....Who remembers the entry? I hope the exit will be as unremarkable too. A quick slip into nothingness. I love myself too much to bother if anyone was around when the end comes. I'd be busy watching out for myself. Dying is scary. Not dying alone.

[Davidgeo]

By the time I die I hope to be sick of living by then. I'm already sick of people, dying alone doesn't seem that bad to me... seems almost natural.

[AYVID N]

And nothing natural is bad....

[Davidgeo]

Everything we do is natural. Even the fakest of fake plastics is still a product of nature. We are not beyond nature, everything we do is a product of it.

[Davidgeo]

Damn it... this was all i really wanted to say ... Herpes are bad... and still natural.

[AYVID N]

Funny, but I have to agree.

[Gee]

I’m hoping death doesn’t mean squeezing back through too tight lips and then being fed mush through a tube !!

[Davidgeo]

Ha.... that was pretty funny. And oddly arousing.

[Hebe]

Just as we are born alone, we enter sleep alone, we feel our pain alone ... it is the cycle of everything, that's why it's important to stay awake in this moment and feel life. It's hard to express these thoughts but you do it so eloquently!

[Davidgeo]

Thanks. I wonder if being born feels like dying? Nobody actually remembers the moment they attain consciousness... it just kinda happens. I think that dying might feels very similar. The main difference is that we can usually see the dying part coming. Usually.

[Hebe]

Maybe it's like the second before you fall asleep.... i just read the memory part of the brain which is deep in the center stays alive for at about 10 mins after your death....thats the part probably when you get the flashbacks of certain events of your life..... it could be the transitional stage to the next chapter? ....

[R J Askew]

Hmmm, but Death is with us when we Die. He might be an amusing geezer who tickles us in some way. Rule nothing out.

[Davidgeo]

Only if you believe death is an entity, not simply an event. I don't think it makes sense to anthropomorphize death. Claiming something with zero hard evidence then justifying it by saying "rule nothing out" just makes no sense to me. That's not what faith means to me. And that kind of thinking is akin to arguing for Santa claus, the easter bunny, or the fountain of youth among many other fanciful myth's without substance. When you say "rule nothing out" without some kind of logical evidence that statement becomes completely meaningless. If nothing is ruled out then nothing is all you know for certain. It's a zero plus zero game... I find that kind of logic to be childish.

[R J Askew]

Indeed, it makes no sense. But why must everything make sense to you and why must everything have meaning? And fanciful myths are at the heart of most of our cherished stories. And to be childish is arguably our happiest state, so I for one do not object to have a little of the child still in me.

[Davidgeo]

Ha... I think I see your point.

Well said.

[Eddie Phillips]

Your poem is melancholic and interesting at the same time. It has truth that can disturb the reader while consistently trying to point out the ephemeral facts of our existence. I like the approach!

[Goulden Bean]

One thing I like here is your structure, the way you interrupted it to have "truly" in its own paragraph makes it feel all the more emphasized. It's like, if you were speaking it aloud, suddenly raising your voice to drive something home.

[Davidgeo]

I watch a lot of stand up comedy. Especially guys like doug stanhope and bill hicks. There is a subtle nuance to a good punchline. Obviously, I'm not very funny but I do kinda understand how to structurally enunciate a 'punch line', so to speak.

I drink fancy whisky on Wednesdays so forgive me if I sound like a f*****g moron right now.

[Julie McCarthy (juliesp..]

Hi love your poem we must be twins I wrote something an hour ago not similar but about same thing

[Davidgeo]

Nice. I'm going to have to read that one, as profound minds tend to think alike I'm certain it's pretty f*****g awesome. What's it called?

[Julie McCarthy (juliespenhere)]

Blur
It’s not great

[Davidgeo]

We shall see. I bet it's not so bad.

[John Ryan]

I love the sarcasm in this,
I like how it can either be seen as depressing or comforting

[Davidgeo]

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed.