Beauty is pain, they so often say. Well, okay. Life is beautiful, they say as well. Indeed, we may say. But if life is beauty and beauty is pain, Then is not life pain? For my life surely is. And is not our Biological goal To seek an end to the pain we feel? But surely genetics have made us so, So that we can escape pain. Death Is the end of life, Or at least of this one, On that all may agree. And so if death Is the end of life And life Is pain, Then is not death Our goal? Is not death The desired release?