Robert Verdon, #208, The Death Question

problem of death

clot on the social brain

yearning to be

dissolved

faith in gods failed

(as we imagine)

howling in deserts

for blood-and-boned millennia

perishing like locusts

fledglings in chimneys

whales on a beach

children in agony

avenge these deaths

save us from time

make death’s abolition

more than mere hubris,

save us! we pray,

in our enlightenment:

for soon we will have

and soon we will master

the technology