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 ===Poems, Prose and Writings about death === ===Poems, Prose and Writings about death ===
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 +===You cannot hurry death===
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 +-----
 +You cannot hurry death
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 +It has its own time
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 +Its own season
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 +-----
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 +Even when life is thin, frail and achingly hard
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 +You cannot hurry death.
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 +-----
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 +Thin skeletal man
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 +Just a breath in a sheath
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 +of skin and bones
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 +-----
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 +But still that breath continues
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 +In and out
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 +Measuring the last moments
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 +of life and being
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 +-----
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 +How do we free ourselves 
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 +from our painful carcasses when
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 +they are exhausted and spent?
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 +-----
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 +The soul valiantly
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 +Showing glimmers of itself, 
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 +like a spark of light 
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 +through a dense gorse bush of redundant bones.
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 +-----
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 +How the soul must long to be free
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 +To rise up and fly again
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 +Unencumbered by the trappings of an
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 +ancient body
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 +-----
 +And yet there is a deep affection for
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 +being here in this world
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 +A place we know
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 +People whose lives have touched us and
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 +who we have touched
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 +-----
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 +At some stage the call to freedom
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 +Must be heard and not resisted
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 +-----
 +At some stage the shackles of the body can be
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 +sloughed off
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 +Like a snake losing its skin -
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 +too small
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 +too itchy
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 +and
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 +not fit for purpose
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 +anymore
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 +-----
 +Then when one abandons
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 +the thin thread of hope 
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 +that bind the soul
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 +-----
 +Only then can the future
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 +Whatever that might be
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 +Open and blossom
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 +-----
 +Maxine Green
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 +
 +-----
 +===There is no need – ode to a dying man===
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 +There is no need
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 +to say the words
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 +The heart beat is enough
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 +-----
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 +There is no need to mend the future
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 +The past was ample
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 +and enough
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 +-----
 +There is no need to press the flesh
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 +When the souls beat together 
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 +that is enough
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 +-----
 +There is not need, when the beat of the
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 +soul is
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 +loud
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 +and clear
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 +There is no need……
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 +it is enough
 +
 +
 +-----
 +Maxine Green
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