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For The Unknown
For The Unknown
Dedicated to my family and Kim Perez
Death in disguise peeking around every corner,
Death in surround sound around every coroner,
Wasting time asking when and where it'll get me,
No great meaning above this meaningless litany,
Is knowing our last breath is near a blessing or a curse,
Does the search for meaning make life better or worse,
I do my best to prepare for the nothingness ahead,
It's like trying my best to un-slice sliced bread,
I try to feel what it felt like to not feel anything before I was born,
Existance is like our intestines and we're undigested pieces of corn,
The sliver of life - just enough time to realize the forever following it is a grim one,
A tragedy never paling in the face of all injustice, of all hatred, of all crimson,
I can only imagine the paralyzing fear - inescapable via kind intentions of the undying,
The greatest skill is to not acknowledge it, to somehow forbid oneself from even trying,
Only full enjoyment from life if we can delude ourselves that death be weak,
That it be a gateway to continual existences, that the reality of it be not bleak,
Be not black, be not the indefatigable lack of everything we've ever known,
Be not unavoidable, be not the the cessation of everything we've ever been shown,
Unlucky to be born, lucky to have the family that I do,
Lucky to have Kim, in my heart I've already said 'I do,'
From the thousands of dreams and desires that will never be actualized,
To the thousands of life's let downs, still to come and already realized,
Whatever love is, as it dies with me in the grave,
Let it live in you, giving you what I wasn't - brave...
