Fear of Death

by BOB GALLO   Jan 11, 2024


The objective of a heart is
to defeat time
in overcoming
the fear of death,

for the hands of clocks
are the drumsticks
that tick tock, tick tock
beating loud,
only on our hollow tambour
of fear.

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  • 3 months ago

    by Everlasting

    I’m a coward
    sometimes i wish death was here
    and that it took me
    That way I wouldn’t see those I love die

    but the fear does come to me
    when I am this closed to meet death
    cause there’s some
    who depend on me and me alone
    so I can’t greet death just yet

    I’m a coward

    • 3 months ago

      by BOB GALLO

      In the first part:: "sometimes i wish...." I am all the way with you there. The first time In verry early ages when I learned the concept of death I could not stop crying thinking my parents would eventually die. I thought I was the cause of their death by growing.

      " But the fear does come to me
      when I am this closed to meet death"
      It worries me to no end in both ends that you are insinuating you might be terminally ill ( which really breaks my heart because I genuinely love your spirit) or you are so broken that you are looking for sympathy. In any case I love you unconditionally my friend.

      and then "cause there’s some
      who depend on me and me alone
      so I can’t greet death just yet"
      which it is a great motivation to live.
      Though remember we are all part of the " collective consciousness” so, we all are depended on one another. So my love and so many other's, way above mine. should be some sources of motivation for the continuation of the beautiful Luce to “Everlasting”

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