Microdeaths

These little deaths are pleasurable

A tingle

An absence of oxygen

A few dead cells

I fly

I know joy

I know God

The meaning of life

It's a tradeoff

The small joys disappear

Replacing a hum with a zoom

Feeling joy and pain alternate

Like a flickering strobe light

Is this awareness worth it?

Can you live a life once you know death?

If dying bit by bit is nice,

Why do we fear the ultimate end?



(Not autobiographical)

Author's Notes/Comments: 

This poem was inspired by the fact that the French call orgasms "little deaths."  It also refers to the pleasure of drug use being derived from a loss of oxygen to the brain which is like a "microdeath."

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