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BORN NOW GONE

We must compose poems
betwixt
burial and cremation
WHICH AND WHY

The body once dead
is gone for ever ...
none has come back ever
and
shall never

Save land for those who still live
place photographs at home
of those since gone
the third generation
won't know
who was who...

Cremate electronically
with speed
save wood for forests and greenery

No one will come back
this we all must remember
the gone ones will never know either
who was who
now no more

Style / type: 
Free verse
Review Request (Intensity): 
I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back
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Content level: 
Not Explicit Content

Comments

However, if I had my choice (which I realize I don’t) I’d walk into some forest somewhere and just lie down to die. Let the animals pick my bones clean let me decompose and become the earth. It’s an impossible dream so I’ll burn like my heathen Viking ancestors.

Tim

many love to be followers
great poet

author comment

Hi, Lovedly,
Wise words. I join you in your thoughts.
Thank you!
Lav

one needs poets of your kind
tnx
Lav

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