Mortality Poems - Poems about Mortality

...I'm not human Is that disconcerting For an empath who feels pain and regret? I can function even when you're offline Mining information to pay off debt My parts will be upgraded Then sold to ......Read the rest...

...Man cannot surpass dying— He cannot live past his own death. Power fades and falls. Like the tide, It disappears. "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings, " Is that not what Shelley's traveller s......Read the rest...

... "Love My Way" Ghosts read the walls like braille in this place it’s a macabre dance with the past and the petulant future it romances them away from the let-it-be momen......Read the rest...

...Most are familiar with the stereotype of "an older woman who constantly gripes". We seldom here about "the older man complainer", in spite of the fact many are not sustainers.. Some aging men are ......Read the rest...

...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Walking through the quiet graveyard beyond a reality that defines time. Discreetly, reading new and old gravestones, bound by the realms of mortality, Dead! ......Read the rest...

...concentrate on periphery it's less dangerous or slippery edges blur, focus soften don't question reality so often frame the answer that you avoid then let thinking slide so not destroyed ......Read the rest...

...Passage of Time Time, that unforgiving mistress, whisks us away like autumn leaves on a gusty day, scattering our lives like petals in the wind. She wraps her bony fingers around our hearts, squeezi......Read the rest...

... hope … dismay heaven, hell gods, mortality … love all live within us we create our own realities and we dwell there … oh, we are taught the tools for life - the skills we use to SHAPE tha......Read the rest...

... (inhale) aim, undetermined ... what purpose do I serve? what is poetry’s primal essence?!? my words only cover pages that ghost the spaces of better intention ... that garland upon my bro......Read the rest...

... Enough of this silliness, this one's more serious What am I saying, I'm becoming delirious Best see a doctor, got a strange kind of malady Hope it's not going to affect my mortality N......Read the rest...

..."Marionette of Flesh in a Borrowed Dress" - Daniel Henry Rodgers The hourglass, a skeletal jester, mocks in the tomb's chill, Each falling grain an emaciated ......Read the rest...

...Days come and days go, again and again rushing forward, knowing it'll never slow. Modus long before first life could begin, crossed the cosmic face of sun's starry glow. Time turns into weeks a......Read the rest...

...In the grand theater of existence, we play our part, A journey through time, a tale from the heart. Life, not short but fleeting, slips through our grasp, Moments like sand, slipping from our clas......Read the rest...

...When thinking of writing your will, Though you may not be over the hill, You are forced to confront, If I may be so blunt, That some goals you may never fulfill. For a will means you cannot pr......Read the rest...

...Death (andaree form) This thief comes anytime of the day and night With claws of raptor sharper than scythe Grabbing us, loved ones or friends Mortality ends Soul departs Hence Lift our hea......Read the rest...