You Will Die Soon

[Guest guest]

You will die soon,

Your body absorbed

Into the substance

Of the earth.

 

Your voice will soon

Be silent,

Your protests unheard,

Your objections like

Echoes, die away

Into silence.

 

You will die soon,

Everything you worked for

Will pass,

Fade away.

Those dreams

Will vanish,

Those desires will

Be silent.

 

Your house will collapse,

Your clothes will turn to rags,

Your car, polished so brightly

Will turn to rust.

Your children will

Die in war,

Fought without purpose,

Fought without end.

 

Laying there, wrapped

In rotten camoflage,

Helmets covering empty skulls,

Flesh free, bones, and rusted guns

Are covered in mud and dust.

 

Let go of your small view,

Let it expand it outward to infinity,

And here you are,

Now.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Larry Epston

www.epston.com

 

 

 

 

Sent from Centennial High School

Compton California

During my prep period.