One By One

One by one we bite the dust.
We leave the wanting.
We leave the lust.

Bigger than life we thought we were.
We just forgot
that we are not.

We breathed the air and drank it in,
inhaled the pure,
inhaled the sin.

One by one we say goodbye.
We leave the craving.
We leave the sigh.

Surely where we go from here
will take us home,
will stop the roam.

One by one we stop the breath.
We find the peace.
We welcome death.

poem by Edwina Reizer
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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