Why Must We Die

Birds flying away
An airplane taken off
Is this how
We leave this earth
When our time is up
Leaving our bodies
For our loved ones
To cry over
Releasing our minds
Far, far
Away from here
I wonder
As this week
I found out
An old friend
I haven’t spoken to
Since high school
Had passed away
Shocking news
Surprisingly
The feelings I got
After reading RIP
On Facebook
That feeling
We
As the people I grew up with
I once knew
In school
Today
As I looked into a mirror
We’re still young
And just the thought
Dying
Can happen to me too
Makes a person think
Life is very precious
And then
To find out
My friend from the past
Died in an apartment fire
A very drastic way
To be the last sight
Of your living self
I pray
They died in their sleep
The same way
I want to leave
Some day
Painless
And with no sight
Of loved ones
Crying over me
But at an older age
After
I’ve seen all I could
And done
Most of all
I wanted
But unfortunately
We don’t decide
When and how we leave
We all have to go
And when our time has ran out
Loved ones
And friends
Always asking amongst themselves
Why
Why must we die