Death

• Sela Krasenstein, Grade 8
• Poetry
• 2016

DEATH
The despair of man
The anguish,
The sorrow.
The pain in the mind of the widow and the orphan.
The fear that haunts ones every waking moment, the phantom of the ones that seek immortality.
Some accept it with bravery knowing it is a battle that can never be won.
While others foolishly dream to defeat it but they only ever
Run
And Run
And Run.
It has been the driving force of the pathetic attempts to rid it of this world.
The so-called geniuses that claim to be our heroes as it is they who fight it are nothing but naive halfwits.
As one must live in the known and present as then one can understand the scope of the wondrous gift of life
And learn not to abuse it and not to have the audacity to
demand to have more than you were given.