Can't Choose Your Death

An infant

Suddenly dead in his crib.

My grandpa 

dying in his sleep

At hundred and six.

Women, dying  giving birth

Solders dying in battlefields.

Car accidents, plains falling

Some die crossing streets.

By stray bullet 

drive by shooting.

By Jeffrey Dahmer

Decapitating.

A fanatics' poisoned cool aid.

Cancer and Aids.

In a dumpster, in an alley

By teen parents.

Drowning, 

In the bathtub

Your schizo mother.

A hunting knife

By your athlete husband.

A snake bite,

A dog mulling.

In an earthquake

Buildings falling,

In wildfires and mudslides.

The gas chamber,

Electric chair

Firing squad

The guillotine.

Death by hanging

Lynching, dragging

Horse back riding.

Hang-gliding, train crossing

Striking lightning.

On the slops

By avalanche

In SUBMARINES

and Space Ships.

Death by torture,

Death by hunger,

Stoned to death.

An overdoes at twenty eight.

By your surgeon,

Mercy killings

By Doctor Death.

Suffocation

Mutilation

Liposuction

Mad Cow disease

Tylenol tampered

The Bird Flue, SARS

And suicide.

And on    and on

The list   goes on.

Which one's better?

Which is faster?

Which is painless?

Which one is fair?

You know, I know

We must all go

But we can't choose

How to exit

This damn world

Just like when

We didn't chose to enter it.

 

First written on September 22, 2001

Edited on March 29, 2008