Mortality

Hope is an illusion
for the dying man,
Death is the only thing
for which you can plan,
Mortality is certainly
the cruelest trick on man
for nothing you will ever do
can overcome a lifespan-
You won’t know how-
You won’t know when-
But it’ll happen suddenly,
And then-
There won’t be pain nor suffering,
There won’t be peace or respite,
There just won’t be-
And when the last memory of your memory
fades from the minds of those who once knew you
and when your gravestone has been worn by time
until not even your name is left in record-
It’ll be as if you never were-
Hope is an illusion
Everything will eventually never be