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We weren't meant to be forever

Life was never meant to last

Birth is only death's beginning

An onward struggle to a dignified end

The distances can be so different

But the outcomes always the same

Futile efforts to delay what is inevitable

To prolong what is our suffering

And so what does it matter?

The plight that we all face

Down different roads we travel

Bound by tradition of death

Promises of eternity

Lead to a false sense of security

And so what does it matter?

So easily replaced

In differing ways suffer

Bound by tradition of death