The final breath
Escapes your lips
You think
You have time
7 seconds?
7 minutes?
You blindly search for an answer
One
You might have once known
Another forgotten tidbit
As time escapes
Am I
Really wondering
Whether it’s 7 minutes
Or seconds
As my body lies
Slowly decaying
Already
Death
The final breath
Has already escaped
You ponder
Wasn’t
Life supposed to flash?
Before my eyes?
Wasn’t
That what people said?
Maybe?
But as a slideshow
Doesn’t appear
You ponder
What was it like?
My life?
Your already slowing brain
Starts to shoot
Neurons
Spasms
As you try
To remember
Your childhood
But come out moot
Nothing
Nothing
Well
I guess
That’s all folks
You feel tired
Maybe it’s time to sleep
Huh
You’re still awake
Ha
Of course not
You’re dead
But you’re awake inside
Your consciousness existing
Without a body
Without a brain
You ponder
What are you?
Inside?
Outside?
Is your brain
Your breath of life?
It can’t be
You’re still alive
Wait no
No you’re not
You’re dead
Ha
You ponder
Inky blackness
Surrounds you
Not scary
Not violent
Calm
You are calm
Is it time to sleep yet?
Another spasm hits as your brain fires again
And again
Well
Heh,
I guess not
Is this
What death is like?
Is this
What it would be like?
For eternity to come?
Am
I in purgatory?
You wonder
As inky blackness
Surrounds you
You feel cold
Then hot
There’s nothing to regulate
Your body temperature
Wait
You laugh
Hysterically
You don’t even have a body
No one can hear you
Your own personal system
Of development
You wearily ponder
Can I close my-
Oh wait
I don’t have eyes do I?
Where was heaven?
Where was Jesus Christ
Or the holy trinity?
Where was Allah?
Or Buddha?
Lies
All lies
There was nothing to be worried about
And certainly nothing to fear
As sins come through your-
Mind?
Consciousness?
You remember
That time you
Did this
Or that
And you’re not in hell yet?
Or are you?
Your body spasms again
Shocks
As you electrically try to awaken yourself
Inky blackness
Crowds your vision
You may be dead
But you’re not gone
Or are you?
You have eternity
You laugh
To ponder
You laugh again
Everything around you
Time passes as you-
Blink?
It doesn’t matter
You see the Earth destroyed
Natural calamity
You see millenia pass
Right in front of your eyes
Black holes
Swallowing your sun
Your universe dead
Cold
Gone
Right in front of your eyes
It doesn’t matter anymore
As you don’t know what time is
You don’t know what it is
Death
Is nothing
Your body can’t spasm anymore
And your consciousness lasts forever
As you finally decide to take a nap
You don’t wake up
Because
Of course
Ha
You’re dead aren’t you?