everyone says
their greatest fear
is dying or
something equivalent
to death
but
to be living in
a state of distress
where expiring
has you gripped by
your sweaty palms
is not how i envision
how life ought to be
it's not that i want to die
however
maybe it's the comfort in knowing
that this too shall pass
nothing is forever
not even this life
— spoiler, we all die in the end.
