You Will Die Just Fine. Poem by William Jackson

You Will Die Just Fine.

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You will die just fine.
Don't worry.Everybody does.
No, not everyone worries.
Everybody dies just fine.

Most people die just fine.
Accident, suicide, old age-
You don't get to choose;
Except for suicide, fate decides.

When it's suicide, fate still decides.
Be optimistic. Everyone else is.
Yes, everyone thinks death happens.
Everyone thinks death happens to someone else.

Still, some people think death comes just for them; else
why would they look forward to it? Really! Like walking
into a bullet, they expect it. No, really!
Death is surely the great leveler; it comes for all.

All in all, life is the builder though.It keeps rising from the ashes.
It quietly works even when it appears that everything has died.
After an inferno that consumes the forest, the fireweed still profusely blooms.
Life and death, intimately entwine.You need not worry, you will die just fine.

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
I wrote this poem in response to Spring, the poem by St. Edna Vincent Millay.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Raj Nandy 23 May 2008

Your last line beautifully concludes your fine poem! - Raj Nandy

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Ronald Stroman 23 November 2007

eye hope the suicide maniacs get your message. i dis-like some of them... because, they seem to fail at relationships and putting an end to things. lol Priest William Jackson, eye thank you for comforting so many about living. take care.

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William Jackson

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