#death

"I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew."

"We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations."

"Saving YouThe darkness takes him over, the sickness pulls him in; his eyes—a blown out candle, I wish to go with him.Sometimes I see a flicker— a light that shone from them; I hold him to me tightly, before he's gone again."

"Senility [10w] Senility's like a bottle of Coke that lost its bubbles."

"The Unspoken Speaks Volumes Stillness brackets the exchanges between lovers. Itis not the lack of sound, but an encapsulated silenceof resonance. Resonant silences stand like bookends, embracing their thoughts;though formal pleasantries vibrate the air,they are more ritual than communication.The couples true intents are articulated in the unspoken.Two bodies.One soul."

"So, what do you do when you know you have two days to live? Eat an entire Bitter Chocolate Death cake all by myself. Reread my favorite novel. Buy eight dozen roses from the best florist in town--the super expensive ones, the ones that smell like roses rather than merely looking like them--and put them all over my apartment. Take a good long look at everyone I love."

"...and there you have it, another body on the floor surrounded by things that don't mean much to anyone except to the one who can't take any of them along."

"The 'Ugly' Poet [10w] Poets develop cleverness with wordsto compensate for their unattractiveness."

"There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty."

"No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for."

"Rebellious Fish [10w] Sometimes swimming against the current turns you into glazed salmon."

"We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others."

"Justice will prevail!"

"After I’m dead, I want to ghostwrite my autobiography."

"Hermit Crab Should a hermit crab be required to have a real estate license?"

"We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead."

"Love's War [10w] In love's war there aren't winners and losers ~just casualties."

"Lady Gaga Haiku A cow has a big head, deep voice, a long tongue, butLady Gaga he's not."

"Promising vs. Promises A promising life comes from a childhood without broken promises."

"I go to seek a Great Perhaps."