Kit Kelen #344 - all going to vanish (wake-up call)

344

all going to vanish

(wake-up call)

these works

these worries of the day

the next thing

all the to-do

and all that we've done

a certainty they'll vanish

this view too

the builded world

crumbling

and the gilded

our century

like all the others

going gone

the forest is vanishing

furious rate

the creatures of there

the languages too

do you think you've purchased

some kind of exemption?

no, me and you – we're in on the act

what do you plan to do?

you could try believing

go down on your knees

kid yourself any way you like

all the gods will vanish

they're only of this world

we make ourselves up just the same as we go

they say

'it mightn't happen'

and well it might as well

but whether it does or not

for sure that idea will disappear

along with the rest

tarnish first though

rust

drop off

and me?

I'm going away myself

I make no special claim

I don't think it will be a journey

there's no metaphor that fits

I could indulge the notion soul

but it's not hard to see where that came from

and where it's likely going gone

this makeshift pulpit

here I've patched

from fancying my own opinion?

the soapbox sinks

into the soil

the song's now empty air

death is approaching, comrades

actuarially there cannot be the least doubt

death is day by day

not only closer

but more likely

you can bet your house on it

death prior to now

is of vanishing odds

but the future is

where the odds vanish altogether

the future comes with death inscribed

most natural thing in the world

yes, this is the planet we won't be leaving

we'll have a different use

and it will

what do you think of them bananas?

lay down, get it over

or carpe diem?

I'm signing off now

just for today