Silence

Voices lingering, words stinging.
Tears falling, sobs stalling.
Heart pounding, sirens sounding.
Mind scattering, thoughts mattering.

It's all a dream, it's not what it seems.
It's all a nightmare, just a small scare.
It's all a joke, it's my heart not body that broke.
It's all a mistake, soon I know I'll be awake.

Noises swirling, and sounds whirling.
Head spinning, with hurt winning.
Dreams fading, and pain pervading.
Smile disappearing, with death nearing.

I know I'm not strong, it'll be soon before long.
The silence will move in, the silence will win.
Thinking of the nearness of death, the losing of breath.
It all seems so far away, all the pain and dismay.

Yet death is so close to us all, it may seem that the
death of another is just another story of pain.
Something that'll never come to affect us.
Yet death's the only thing we don't have in our control.

Live like there's no tomorrow, you'd
never want death to creep up on you.