ON PHILOSOPHY (TRAINING FOR DEATH)

Introducing the last poem of my first chapbook, this multi-part poem will include several verses posted weekly and concluding at the end of the year. Please enjoy!

PROLOGUE

Together we have arrived at this place

With rows of towering marbled columns

giving rise to those who debate the problems

that have, and will, and shall, plague the human race

a life well lived births a death justly won

as we arrive in hell, the gate bolted shut

reminisce: wanton wand’ring under th’sun

the great philosophers stay here, stuck in a rut.

Rhetorical rhetoric is antithetical in task,

As it fails to do what of you, they and I ask.

This matters not, for your task is but to learn

And ease the hearts burden, of all that it yearns.

So come, sit, and join the fellows with us here

listen and orate, as you’ve been implored to share.