let's talk about death
to feel alive
don't think it
be it
be you, the rotting corpse
or the brain that forgot
that it is a brain
whatever scares you more

which is it,
the end
or the slow long wait for it?

it's happening
on the timescale of the universe
it's almost happening now

and it will be you out there
did you know, that on a neural level
we think of our future selves
as if they were someone else?
but it will be you out there

and it will be me out there
and i know no other way around it
than to try to reach you now
to see if you're just like me
because we will all die alone
there is no way around it
the best you could hope for is
that feeling when friends
walk you to the dentist
and at some point
they have to stay outside

but could we not be alone
now?

aren't you here?
aren't you afraid?
don't you want to hold
somebody's hand?