DEAD OR ALIVE

Destiny? Don’t make me laugh

because if I start, I’ll never stop!

No:

forget destiny, darling.

The Fates are a fairytale

and the only inevitability

of this existence

is death.

It’s the heartbreaking fact

of the human condition:

that the best of us

end the same way as the worst—

still of heart,

unresponsive,

ready for the slab, the ground, the oven;

unknowing.

We all need to live while we’re alive

and without such awful resignation

to some ill-imagined fate.

Yes;

live your life while you’re alive, love,

because if you’re not living,

you’re dying.

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