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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448757" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Death Of Me</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Death sat<br>contemplating suicide<br>while speaker after speaker<br>opined: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The scientist intoned; <br>'The Cell is immortal<br>only personalities die; <br>Death cannot commit suicide! ' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Buddhist decried<br>all end points<br>citing endless cycles, renewals.<br>and reincarnations.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The biologist argued<br>that the only death that<br>mattered was the death of species; <br>'Individual biology matters least.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Only the planet matters'<br>said the environmentalist.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>America lofted the individual<br>graffiting on the Universal wall<br>'All Death is the Death of the individual.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The British had no remedy<br>offering instead a spot of tea<br>saying Death Down<br>is better sipped<br>with chin-up determination.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The pastor said<br>'Death is but a passage<br>on to Heaven or Hell<br>and best to get your life straightened out<br>before you hear that tolling bell.'<br> <br>The Fatalist said 'do it, do it.'<br>It is inevitable'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Death' said the existentialist <br>'is other people who<br>can kill your spirit<br>even before Death comes-<br>you arrive already dead<br>at Deaths Door.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Life too<br>is other people<br>who can make Death mute<br>in a life well understood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, above all<br>Death cannot commit suicide; <br>if you do I will have nothing to write about'<br>said the Existentialist.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Death rose finally and spoke<br>in breathy tones: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I admit<br>I have enjoyed<br>the praise of the Fatalist; <br>enjoyed my role as the Last Aribitor<br>of Grim Joy<br>and Lifeless Bravado; <br>all come to me<br>with diverse faces<br>fear, hunger, worshiping or welcoming; <br> <br>but my Joyless Smile<br>silences all of them<br>because on this side of the portal<br>I am King.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To some I am Joy, or Release<br>others see me as Horror Grim.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I am<br>to me<br>much maligned<br>and misunderstood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now in my own Suicide; <br>all this will be clarified <br>my death means the end of time; <br>the end of all history.<br>Birth too<br>shall also end<br>with my demise.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'My suicide' <br>Death said<br>is then, too, <br>the Death of all Things, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">because Life has no place<br>in the Universe<br>without first<br>I, Death, <br>having also lived.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You humans<br>fragment what is an Immutable Whole<br>and point to fragmented beginnings and endings; <br>guide your lives by these<br>and blind yourself to the Wholism Seed<br>which says; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">there is no beginning and no end<br>there is only the passing<br>through the Passages<br>where Birth is the very End<br>and too<br>the very beginning<br>mediated by the Grim Gatekeeper: <br>Me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Life spoke saying</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Death you say<br>that your demise<br>is essential to my own beginning, <br>that without endings<br>there can be clearly no beginnings<br>and with no Stops On The Railway<br>of Time and Space; <br>everything ceases to exist.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'So Friend Death you say<br>we should relent: <br>for all to continue<br>to exist<br>we must forbear you<br>so that the flowers might bloom<br>so that time continues to mate with space, <br>so that all that is possible<br>is birthed <br>from Death's fine potential; <br>and Life's creation<br>is of a piece<br>made possible too<br>by your suicide.<br>I Life, owe you<br>everything.'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Death sprang from his seat.<br>'You make a mockery of me? <br>Do you say that I am but a path<br>to you Life and irrelevant; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">only a handmaiden<br>to your purpose.? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Death's anger was livid red<br>with his dark countenance<br>the mix was maroon tint.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Life stood his ground<br>to rejoin: <br>'<br>'You Death have a fatal flaw: <br>in laying claim<br>as life's progenitor<br>once spent and shorn you say<br>we all fall into your arms<br>to reluctantly embrace the night; <br>our true inheritor? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Life stood her full height<br>sputtering<br>'The purpose of existence is not Death<br>but Life.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You have misunderstood; <br>Death is not the dying<br>nor is it the Surrender of Life.<br>In Death<br>not only does the individual die<br>but sadly Death<br>you too<br>also die<br>because the dream is one of Immortality<br>not Dead Death <br>that you represent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Indeed you are the Grim<br>and with each day<br>have no memory<br>that you are the dead<br>one dying; <br>most times by suicide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shocked and humbled<br>Death gasped.<br>'Can this be true? ' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I die a thousand million death's<br>so that you life<br>can renew? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'True' Life said<br>You are not Martar but obstacle to the New<br>and die so that<br>I<br>Life can be.'<br>You are a means<br>not the end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Think on this Death.<br>Came Life renew from Grim Death? <br>That is too precious an irony and<br>more<br>is likely untrue.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'No Life renews from Life<br>and you Death must step aside<br>by natural cause, <br>or suicide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Blanching<br>Death said<br>'All of this then<br>predicates on the Death of Me<br>endlessly? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I think so' said Life; <br>and it was so<br>that Death<br>then died by his own hand; <br>a reluctant suicide; <br>saying: <br> <br>Death is individual<br>including mine; <br>repeated endlessly<br>its seems <br>for all time<br>and each time<br>I forget, <br>it seems<br>my own<br>death<br>is doomed <br>to repeat again<br>and I not remember..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'All Death'<br>Death said<br>in his last swoon</div><div style="margin:10px 0">is the <br>Death of Me.'<br>My own Death<br>not remembered.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And' Life said<br>'if you don't go willingly<br>or by suicide<br>Nature has decreed<br>you will have to go<br>Unpeacefully<br>by my hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Such a simple truth.'<br>Death said</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Life is first in all <br>of the Universe<br>and Death<br>is last<br>and favored least.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Tragic, too, <br>because it is my destiny<br>to Die<br>again, and again <br>by my own hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Saddest of all Ironies<br>I am Death<br>and I die too<br>but last<br>my death is noble best.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Death said with his last breath</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With that<br>he expired; <br>Life catching<br>his final expiration.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</a><div class=q>
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contemplating suicide
while speaker after speaker
opined: 

The scientist intoned; 
'The Cell is immortal
only personalities die; 
Death cannot commit suicide! ' 

The Buddhist decried
all end points
citing endless cycles, renewals.
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