It's not gloomy to consider death
It's not morose to contemplate our final rite of passage.
On the contrary.
Death is the other part to life;
the flipside partner.
To more fully grasp aspects of death
should give a richer appreciation of life.
A more complete picture.
Greater clarity of awareness
Renewed awareness
of the giftthat is life.
Mindful of death
we can live with greater vigour;
Zest, colour, verve,
vim, laughter, fragrance,
tones, tast, sound-scape,
love, movement, vision,
mayhem, chaos, breeze,
friendship, flavour, clowning,
tickle, swallow, smirk,
pulse, passion, poetry,
landscapes, madness, texture
as we consider
death's polarity,
[all that death is not]
we become richer for the reflection:
(The opposite of death is life;
Life is the anti-death)
and use it as a springboard to live.
