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Inviting, Accepting - Death, Cancer

If death knocks on your door; invite it in.     Don't fight it off; you won't win. Welcome it as you would welcome your kin.     In this ocean known as life, we all drown or swim. Only some of us get eaten by sharks... They sneak up and pull us into the dark.     We're gone too soon With no chance to say goodbye.     The sharks always succeed Although we may try.     We'll kick         and scream             and flail about They'll bring us down; without doubt. When death comes knocking     Don't bother locking. Let it in, sit down to chat     And in doing that... You'll solve the great mystery     No one has lived to unravel. Where do we go?         What do we see?                 Do we ever come back?                         Or stay eternally? If a shark takes me; so be it.     Drowning is unpleasant, too. I do love mysteries, though     And one day I'll solve this one Just as you'll all do.
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