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My Life, My Death

No adventure, no passion, no mystery. Am I fully living if I can always see what's in front of me?

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My Life, My Death
Deanna Savage

More than a trendy arm-inked motto:
Carpe Diem

Tattooed on heart and arm, encompassing

my worldview,

my decisions,

my hopes,

my fears,

My Life
and it may someday influence my

beautiful death.
I don't want to die gasping for breath

in the mall parking lot
I don't want to leave in a pool of elderly
suffering either

Let me seize my final day and then

die with a mischievous smile
I'm thinking James Dean style.

Much older than James, but no less
adventurous and free
If my body grows old, does that mean
that I have to be?
We all want to manifest our own realities,

control our own destinies

sensible, planned out, with no real mystery

Not me.
I'd rather sit back and see what life throws
in my direction,

enjoying the journey

No concern for the destination,

seeing only what I can in

this

moment
I travel onward.

Hating hatred,

enjoying enjoyment, and
loving.

When I'm over, please celebrate as much as you mourn

Know that I loved, laughed, listened, learned, and truly lived

I've written my epitaph for you to

read with remembering eyes:
I was a bride married to adventure
I was the groom of my wife named mystery
I was a lover to a mistress named passion, and

I worked the corner bartering my narrative
in exchange for yours.

I will do more than visit this world,

attempting to leave it with the most toys

I have no need to be popular, but I need to be

important to the people who surround me
I will truly love and fully live, and then

I will die
and leave a

void.


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