Saturday 21 April 2012

Mortality

 
Mortality

With coffee in hand, nothing can stop you.
The world is your oyster and I believe
You when you say
“Today
I will be perfect”

Awake early each morning to prepare
To face your never-ending fight
Against your hair.
Plucking out the greys and sacrificing them
In the noble name of self-preservation.

You shall not decay,
Today is your day

And you will look
Exactly
Like that person in the skin-care adverts.

Guinea pigs on their treadmills
Running away from themselves
And burning off that burger.
TV says work harder.

The stressful 9 to 5 to pay your bill
For beauty products battling your stress lines.
Being alive is not living, it’s
Denying your mortality one pill at a time.

You shall not decay,
Today is your day

But your casket looked the same.

1 comment:

  1. I guess you're not aiming for a career in probate.

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