Notes for "a cup of tea with death"

The idea is that death
takes what is important
and shows that it is not
it is the great leavening
that makes all of us equal
a homogenous feast for worms
It tells us what is important
and that is living life
and trying not to suffer
too much the sad hard parts
and to embrace
the soft happiness
we can have together
or we can have alone
and of course most important
i wanted to show
that i could indeed write
something that sort of rhymed
And I wanted to show
death is not to be feared
that the cloak might show
all the ways to die
but not the suffering
because that is not death
that only precedes death
suffering is hard
death requires a push
leaving life behind
but that is before
death's final embrace
where all the suffering
is left behind
a legacy of the living