Life and Death sought to converse <br />Life offering: <br /> <br />“You death <br />impose upon me <br />Cruel Ironies <br />wasting my years <br />laboring under <br />your Cleverest Illusion <br />that you were so distant <br />so distant so as not to exist; <br />the Illusions Youth Caress <br />an illusion of no endings <br />only Happily Ever Afters. <br /> <br />The Old now <br />Bereft <br />come <br />to suspect there is no <br />happy ever after <br />what so ever <br />and may invent <br />a substitute <br />calling it Religion. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Death said: <br /> <br />'Yes Life <br />I have noticed this as well <br />the inventing <br />of an Ever After <br />calling it Heaven <br />or such; <br />Being with God <br />its Signal Aspect <br />being <br />that I Death <br />am banned <br />from the premises <br />where I am totally <br />denied. <br />This I perceive <br />is its only purpose- <br />to deny me my due- <br />sacrificed to Humankind’s <br />pitiful insistence <br />that Humankind be allowed <br />to live forever <br />and ever after <br />cheating me <br />of my just due. <br /> <br />It is the denial of the yin and yang <br />the wave without the trough <br />the music without the silences. <br />Beginnings without Endings. <br /> <br />“But surely you understand <br />Life, ” <br />Death said <br />“there is no you-Life <br />without my being <br />present; <br />no beginning is conceivable <br />without me-its ending. <br /> <br />I represent all endings <br />Death said <br />drawing himself <br />up to his full height <br />finally saying; <br /> <br />“What fairy tales <br />you mortals weave <br />as you angrily <br />dismount <br />your unicorn. <br /> <br />Life said: <br /> <br />“Ah me thinks <br />you prove too much <br />Death <br />in your premise <br />because contrarily <br />you Death <br />have no meaning <br />or course <br />without me Life. <br /> <br />Therefore <br />you must conclude <br />that under the skin <br />we are brothers; <br />no? <br /> <br />And just perhaps <br />of we two <br />you Death <br />are the <br />Grandest Illusion <br />of all <br />depending upon <br />ones philosophy <br />ones illusion of You <br />or one's Illusion of Me.'<br /><br />Lonnie Hicks<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/life-and-death-97/
