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Rated: 13+ · Poetry · Philosophy · #1656228
Poem on the inevitability of death. Choriambic: one trochee followed by an iamb.
We are machines
Waiting in line
Time bombs in place
Ready to blow

Watching your friends
Standing in front
Facing their ends
Ready to go

Not much time left
Waving goodbye
All of them jump
All in a row

Time bombs explode
Ripping apart
All your old friends
Dead down below

Memories fly
All 'round your head
Thoughts of the dead
Seem long ago

What happens now?
Funny you ask
Your time is up
You must now go!

Body enflamed
Cells start ro die
Your body corrodes
You cry out "NO!"

Pleas go unheard
Death doesn't stop
Rotting your skin
Eating your soul

Slowly you drop
Life burned away
Joining your friends
Dead down below

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