on dying…

into this fragile body –
we are poured –
un-rippled –
as light spilling through a window.
 
given life –
we all too soon –
take for granted.
 
marvelous,
don’t you think –
the awesome act of –
living?
 
it’s relevance,
accentuated by
the alternative!

is – diminished

how can you –
undo –
your – me?
remake –
your was?
how do you –
re-become?
 
ostentatious as – I am,
Pompous as conceit –
we suffocate our – could be;
hold captive in chains – our should…
 
oh so sad,
don’t you think,
the sound of regret?
footsteps down an empty street –
un-prayed prayers –
and paramount to these,
the deafening silence of is,
surreptitiously diminished to not!