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229. Death

If life did end this very day
Will you care or fret?
Will you be afraid of what follows
Or have you not prepared yet?
While some may speak of brilliant lights
Or angels who guide us away
What happens to those with faults
Or those with unfinished business today?
What if hell does exist
Though no one truly knows
If you believe in God and Christ
Will you be forgiven for your sorrows?
There must be a thousand concepts
And as many religions that direct
Is any one of them really true
Or do we just desert our bodies and defect?
If death is really so grand
Why doesn’t everyone just end their lives now?
Is it because we just don’t know
Or that life ends sometime somehow?
I think I’m ready as best I can
If my life were to end today
Besides what can you actually do
For as with birth you have no say


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