Some stream of consciousness, food for thought, prompted by the metaphor dice 🎲✍🏻

Death is a Well-Worn Curse

Each of us wears it

Some on their sleeves

Others hidden

Beneath a facade of eternity

We’re all aware of its presence

And yet there is a hush around it

As if our own suspension can keep it at bay

As if speaking its name will invite it home early

Many do not befriend death

They fear it, resent it

We all try to interpret its greater meaning

We’re terrified that it may just be

Like anything else

It just is…

No

We need to glamorize it

Decorate it

Give it meaning

Speak of it as if it is a grand rite of passage

Something to earn, a reward for a life well lived

Or a punishment for one wasted

But isn’t it all the same?

Rot, decay…

The mind shuts off

All is nothing

Existence becomes non-existence

Back to square one, ground zero

Zero, the infinite

Death is possibilities

We speculate

Are even mystified by its mystery

Allure, even

What truly lies beyond it?

We wonder…

We watch each other age

Death slowly growing upon us

And we try to wear it with grace

We say it’s just nature’s way

Nothing can last forever

But existence itself, right?

Or does that someday die too?

And then what?

For everything to just… cease

And no thing to witness the nothing

Is it then nothing witnessing itself?

Where is consciousness?

Can that too exist on its own, unattached to anything?

We all are death waiting

Death walking around

Decorated in jewelry

In cloth

Its hair and nails done

Death, sitting on a comfortable sofa

Death, opening the fridge

Creating a purpose

Creating something

Absorbing existence while it can

We dress it up in all our stories

Though each one ends the same

It’s the stories we tell along the way

The chapters

That hold our attention and give us something…

Something to connect to, to relate with

To play with

A beautiful distraction

We act like it’s so far from happening

We need not worry

We are safe

For now

A moment of respite away from the inevitable end we all face

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