Half A Chance Poem by Diana Rosser

I will know death.
So will you
and there is nothing you or I can do.
We will know death.

It will come today,
tomorrow, sometime, when.

There is no escape
no exit route
to take us to some other place.
We will know death.

But for now
you and I are living breathing things.
Grasp the life that will not be.
Live and live before
the door is shut

Do not close it prematurely.
Life may yet surprise you
if you give it
half a chance.