A Pre-Occupation with Death (Poem)

Believe it or not, as a twenty-one year old college student, I have a strange fixation with death. I have come to realize at a young age that there is a road we must all wander down at a some point it time and that it is no use trying to escape it. I also, as a proper philosopher should, seem to look forward to death, much as Socrates did, as a release from the world of the physical to the world of the mental. Either way I thought that this week I would post a few poetical excepts from previously completed works. I hope you enjoy them. This one is titled Livin' Life on a Borrowed Dollar.

Sun shinin' on my face

No better place to be today

Not a cloud in the sky

Wakin' up ready to die

Live everyday as if its your last

don't worry now about anything in your past

move on and up in the world my friend

there no better way to live your life

You can do what ever you want

you can be the best person you know

you can laugh at the end of days

whats death got on you that you ain't got on yourself?

So live, laugh, love my friends

dance away until the mornin' ends

live this day like its your last

don't worry now about your past

Let the wind sweep you off your feet, yeah

let the waves pull you out, yeah

Death can come and he can go, yeah

leave us be and leave us whole, yeah

Dance, Fight, love, and die

you don't know whens your time

just forget about the past

and start livin' everyday like its your last

Let the sand run through your hands

like endless days that we once had

we raced on through them like they were nothin'

but that’s okay cuz in the end we can say

We drank, ran, kissed, and made

every single day worth more, than, the, one before it

We didn’t waste a minute of it

cant complain , we shared our lovin'

So look on over at lonely death there

give a buck tell him it'll get better

Share in his misery but don't sit there and wallow

Cuz down here in Florida there's still plenty of drinks to swallow!!

So don't wait, watch, or stand on the shore

get on out there savor each day you're here

Cuz next stops bust and we don't know when

you'll be the one beggin' a buck dude

So live, laugh, love my friends

dance away until the mornin' ends

live this day like its your last

don't worry now about your past