Will you dance with me?

Distracted momentarily, I look at the beautiful world,

In one sweep of flight, I see life court death!

It’s like walking a tight rope you see, every step a potential death,

but with every step we live not knowing which our last might be

Death we fear, but in life we choose to forget

We live as if we shall know not death,

ever! But death has the last laugh!

Mock us if you will ‘oh! Death’, but carry on we must!

As if you do not exist!

For in accepting you lies our end

For, if life accepted your supremacy would it not end?

For who would fight a lost cause?

But we do,

with every breath we defy you!

Until our last breathe is drawn, Is it not very beautiful?

This dance between life and death? Is this not very beautiful ,

how in hope we find our rest?  Is it not very beautiful,

this hope that we possess?!

But then I look around,

in forgetting you we made a mess!

In forgetting you we fail to see the futility of accumulated wealth

Vainness of fame, and success!

For, in you dissolve the meaning of everything we hold

We forget you and hence plot and scheme,

to be at the top in every game!

In present we lose interest,

focused we are on future interests!

We hurt others and ourselves, we do,

because we have forgotten you!

Are you not beautiful then,

when with a graceful sweep

you show us mortal folks the frivolity

of our self preserving antics old!

Oh! how morbidly beautiful of you!

Oh! mock us if you will!  But

look what remembering you always does,

in immortality lies our quest!

We heap havoc left and right,

thinking we shall win the conquest!

But like a chameleon you hide yourself,

and attack when we least expect!

Is it not beautiful,

when you attack with a vengeful scorn?!

Amidst the stench created around,

this dark melancholic dance between you and life!

Why does it keep me spell bound?

Oh! your mocking laughter grows louder beyond!

You mock me from near and far beyond!

Oh! tell me ‘oh! Death’, is there hope around?

Should you be remembered or forgotten?

Does release from fear lie in accepting fate?

Will you stop mocking and guide me along?

Oh! tell me ‘oh! Death’, will you dance with me?

Take one step back when hope needs be and

come to the fore when greed leads me?

Oh! tell me ‘oh! Death’ will you dance with me?