Stop me if you've heard this
Tired joke
Another time
Before I tell my own rendition
And deliver the punchline
With all the impact of
A ton of bricks
Pianos from the sky
Falling down upon your head before
You laugh so hard
You die
Upon realizing just how swiftly,
Just how quickly
It is taken
Could be minutes,
Even seconds
But you never will awaken
Once the Sandman claims a stake in
You, and tips the hourglass
As you descend within its grains
To plummet past a flashing past
Before your eyes is cast
Rewind
What then becomes
The conscious mind
To have so ardently endured
Travails and trials
Of absurd
Why did you feel?
Why did you love?
Why look for answers
Up above?
Why seek you for
More to this life?
Why even suffer
Wrong and right?
When from beginning
To the end
Knew all along
Never again
Could you forestall
Inexorable
Nor rise from its
Impending fall
From whence we crawled
Out of its depths
And slithered till we
Stood *****
Will be the one and only
Destination that awaits
So stop me if you've heard
The twisted
Sense of humor
Of the fates