To Die
by Raini St. John
To die would be such a great adventure
To release that which built and buried
In the years of the living
Into the emptiness of the dead
To feel the tears unshed of so many years
The sadness, the fear, the anger, the joy
To feel them seep away into the void
And never bother again
To unravel the tension
Massed from such weight of shoulders so weak
And let it be gone from being
To know the secrets of the world
And never truly know at all
To see the vast plains at the end of the path
But never reach that end
Such is to die, and to know the dead
To live would be such a great adventure