With positive thinking you can defeat death
Be happy, be brave , you can do it, you can!
I don’t want to look at your skeleton frame
Shrunk and ravaged by cancer and ready to cark
So don’t shout, don’t be angry, don’t scream at your partner
Retreat to your centre and accept your fate for
we all must die.
No positive thinking can save you from death.
So scream and be angry and rage at the light
that’s dimming before them, the unhappy kids
Who cannot accept that you’re reaching the brink
Of a great new adventure that makes you a star
Recapture your faith and toss away fear for
we all must die.
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2 comments:
This is so good and articulates and clarifies my own thinking on the subject even though we're coming at it from different perspectives.
I've just finished reading Helen Garner's The Spare Room and it has the same message - 'No positive thinking can save you from death.' You've captured it in a couple of stanzas. Rather than something to be 'saved from' you've made death itself a stage in life to be welcomed and imbued it with your own passionate and vivid beliefs in the hereafter - 'a great new adventure that makes you a star' - with a contemporary sting in the tail, a wry comment on the ephemeral nature of celebrity.
That's my take on it, anyway! Terrific poem, Isabel.
As always, a very strong piece on the 'myth' of positive thinking when facing life's greatest challenge. An interesting take on the theme of Myths and Legends.
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