26
Jan

Sestina of Life

   Posted by: T-bird   in General Writing, Poetry, Random Thoughts

With only one day left to live,

What would you do?

What would you say?

Where would you go?

Would you make it worth

An entire life’s time?

 

The thing about time

Is it seems that once you live

Through it, you have spent all it’s worth.

It seems no matter what you do,

You will have nowhere to go–

You will have no say.

 

Yet you have a say,

Death is not the end of time.

Death will lead you wherever you wish to go,

And let you live the life you want to live.

All you have to do,

Is live life for all it’s worth.

 

But if your life is worth,

Little more than what a dog might say,

What can you do?

What could you do with all the time

That eternity after death gives you to live.

Where would you go?

 

On the last day, you must go

And do something that will make life worth

A thousand lives which one can live,

A thousand words which one can say,

And you can use the rest of your time,

To do a thousand things which one can do.

 

For if you do

Something important the end will let you go

To a place where time

Has no worth,

You could even say

That after death, there is more for which to live.

 

So if you had one day to live, what would you do?

Would what you say and where you would go

Make your life and afterlife worth all of time?

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