Death is nothing
like they paint it. In fact, it’s just that. Nothing. One minute you’re in this
world, living. The next someone pulls the switch, and you’re gone.
He dies when he’s
seventeen.
He’s walking
absentmindedly, so he doesn’t realize the traffic light has already turned red.
A sound of screeching brakes, a crash. And there it is. Nothing.
Eyes open, body
growing cold on the asphalt as the paramedics arrive. Dead.
Then, suddenly,
death loosens his grip. And he slips back to life.
Did it? Didn’t it?
(Actually happen)
He doesn’t really
want to die. Not specially. It just… sort of happens. But he’s back soon from
the unexpected trip. With a souvenir scar that goes from his leg to his
abdomen.
He dies again when
he’s twenty five.
This time, he just
falls down the stairs.
Spine shattered,
he goes back to nothing.
Death just spits
him back.
Really? You’re not
(Kidding, right?)
The following year
he finds death everywhere. On the news, on real life. It brushes past him on
his way, but never touches him.
He starts growing
curious.
A certain thought
appears from time to time.
He pushes it back to
the depths of his mind.
Is he? Isn’t he?
(gonna do it)
It eventually
comes back. Always comes back.
So he starts
toying with the idea. What if…?
But by then he’s
thirty two, and it’s death’s turn again.
Drowned in a ship
sinking incident.
That’s how his
life fades again.
And then death
nears a warm match to his cold body.
And he’s back on
his feet.
Has he? Hasn’t he?
(yet)
He’s forty now.
Forty, and just so tired.
He yearns for that
nothing.
He just has to
make his mind.
A bottle of pills
and much, much more sleep than recommended.
This time, death
lets him in.
He is. He is.
(Gone)