Brilliant, mature minds
molder,crumble, dissolve into oblivion.

Humans have one hamartia,
 Mortality.

Life is a cycle everyone will complete conclusively.
Some welcome death with acceptance
Others scowl at the "taboo"

No body can escape expiration
Not me, not even you.

Have you ever seen another person decompose in front of you?
Waste away day after day into nothing but skin, bones, and wires.

People who once burned like raging fires, now tepid at best.
A strong, charismatic personality
turned into a feeble and frail specimen.
It is the decline in the human spirit that is the most poignant.

Grey matter disappears
and with it so does the radiant disposition.
The blaze will burn bright
engulfing every last thought and memory,
Extinguished only by extinction.