Life and Death

by A.N.M. - Pisces

She would talk about death almost every day
Her family and friends wished she wouldn't
It just brought them down...the things that she'd say
But she wouldn't stop...no she couldn't!

To her it was a way of preparing for worse
Whether she "really" was dying or not.
She knew she felt signs of physical decay
Her "mental" health basically shot!

She did have her "wits" she wasn't insane
But reasons to live eluded her...
Always spending each day in "some sort of pain"
Made her feel that this life had excluded her.

So she talked on and on about, "what's the big deal?"
To die isn't such a bad gain!
"Death"'s not the enemy---it's how I must "feel"
When I must spend so much "life" in such pain!

Eventually, people just stopped paying heed
To these ramblings she kept pulling-off
It was easier just to ignore things she said
"The sheep who kept crying the wolf!"

Then one day her lover came home but to find
Her "sleeping" so calm in her bed
He didn't think much of it until he saw
The blood trickling down off of her head.

She had taken a gun and shot through her mouth
And blown away all of the pain
She was dead, she was gone. There was no coming back
No more "talking" of death e'er again.






Birth sign: Pisces
Date created: 2005-12-09 15:49:45
Last updated: 2021-03-03 14:46:56
Poem ID: 71114

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