Shout-out to the Living Dead

Location

Fort Collins, CO
United States

Two Options:

1.     Die

2.     Live and THEN Die

It is when we have a multitude of options that we find greater difficulty on which to choose.

This is not the case; there are two options, 
with one deeming a little more apparent, 
making your life a little more important.

The answer IS obvious, 
yet we’ve remained oblivious to it.

We continue to die and let the world lie on its back, 
turning over on its side,
 because those whose drive is reckless, those not so selfless, 
can’t help but punish the Earth for their apathy.

Death will happen to you and me.

Death is happening on these streets, the winter is getting hotter, 
and sweat falls from the brow of those dead-walking.

Death will happen to you and me.

We die.
We lie on our back, six feet below; we turn over in our grave, 
just like the earth and those inhabiting it.
We die.
We will rot in our graves, 
worms will house their families in our rib cage, 
earwigs will tickle our feet, 
beetles will roam through our eye-sockets, 
and we will feel none of these.

Death will happen to you and me, but not now.

Yet we continue to die and have not even passed to the side beyond, 
we feel the pain, walking-dead, on this earth.

We continue to wait for the world to turn itself right side up.
Continue to wait for the glaciers to freeze over again, 
but it is us who are still, stalling any motion.
We continue to wait for our true love to approach us with an application noting their beautiful attributes.
We lie on our back waiting for the selfish, those not so selfless, pathetic, waiting for the should-be-deads to wreck us, to wreck our lives.

So we remain blind with one eye open, our lives closed, 
and choose option 1, we just keep on dying.

We must weigh our options, but what is there to weigh here?!
Choose the latter!
Either die… OR LIVE and Then Die.
Death is inevitable, death will happen to you and me.

Live, live, live, live, repeat.
Why not give all of yourself till you have found yourself, 
why not travel to those worlds you have let be destroyed, why not rebuild those worlds you have let be destroyed. 
Why not?.. 
Why not give them reason to give you an option?
Why not create your option?!
You’ve given enough reason, enough reason, to sue you of treason, 
to many lost seasons for those inhabitants you’ve let be destroyed.

Those that will spit on your grave as they remove any last bit of soul we possess are enjoying this apathy.
You’re losing your options, and as stated, it is difficult to choose when we have many to choose from, but it won’t be too difficult when you’re left with none.

All we’ve ever known is death.

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