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#76 Life After Death
Life After Death
life after death is silent
as in a cemetery
mourners came and went
dirge and elegy are gone
death does not hear
even a silent prayer
death does not see
even the dark underground
when death does speak
you do not hear
when death does smile
you do not see
a song of those who are no more
cannot be sung
the singer of another world
cannot be seen
life is not a drama
world is not a stage
the theater is empty
in a drunken town
- Commonline Project,2007 -
"And nothing can we call our own but death
And that small model of the barren earth
Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings." W. Shakespeare
"And what the dead had no speech for, when living,
They can tell you, being dead: the communication
Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living." T.S.
Eliot
"While man is growing, life is in decrease;
And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun." Edward Young
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"Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom:
therefore they do not believe in dying completely." Albert Camus
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