I have skirted death
more times than I 
can count physical death 
emotional death and spiritual 
death and here’s what 
I’ve learned about death 
It’s just one door 
in a hallway of
doors just one choice 
made by the living 
to stop their living 
the way they do 
Death isn’t the end 
we think it is 
Death is just one 
more beginning the beginning 
of the exact thing 
we tried to avoid 
that last shitty time 
Welcome to your living 
Now make it count