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Poems, Prose and Writings about death

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You cannot hurry death


You cannot hurry death

It has its own time

Its own season


Even when life is thin, frail and achingly hard

You cannot hurry death.


Thin skeletal man

Just a breath in a sheath

of skin and bones


But still that breath continues

In and out

Measuring the last moments

of life and being


How do we free ourselves

from our painful carcasses when

they are exhausted and spent?


The soul valiantly

Showing glimmers of itself,

like a spark of light

through a dense gorse bush of redundant bones.


How the soul must long to be free

To rise up and fly again

Unencumbered by the trappings of an

ancient body


And yet there is a deep affection for

being here in this world

A place we know

People whose lives have touched us and

who we have touched


At some stage the call to freedom

Must be heard and not resisted


At some stage the shackles of the body can be

sloughed off

Like a snake losing its skin -

too small

too itchy

and

not fit for purpose

anymore


Then when one abandons

the thin thread of hope

that bind the soul


Only then can the future

Whatever that might be

Open and blossom


Maxine Green


There is no need – ode to a dying man

There is no need

to say the words

The heart beat is enough


There is no need to mend the future

The past was ample

and enough


There is no need to press the flesh

When the souls beat together

that is enough


There is not need, when the beat of the

soul is

loud

and clear

There is no need……

it is enough


Maxine Green