WHY NOT DEATH?
no dreams
no hopes
all these things
crash down again
all our reach
fails to attain
the basic forms
the simplest needs
we shall lose
more than we've lost
we shall find
more agonies
than even these
we shall suffer
in deeper pits
no different than hell
how can I walk
willingly to this fate?
how can I shift
from what is now
into the nightmare
of what's to come?
why isn't death
the better path?
I can see no way
to pass this cup
I can see no future
without disaster
all routes are blocked
all escapes cut off
there are no roads
which lead me free
must I endure
the terrors then?
must I become
that beaten pulp?
must I step in
tomorrow's pain
knowing full well
there waits the blade?
- Brendan Tripp
01/09/2002
Copyright © 2002 by Brendan Tripp
