One Size Coffin

by William Mae   Aug 29, 2014


One Size Coffin

Here are the thoughts I was thinking today, on the vice and the folly of man. From the rich who buries his money away, to the one earning bread with his hands. From the wretch with no place for resting his head, to those that are loved or appalled. Will find at the end of life's puzzling road, one size coffin fits all.

Be the woman society gives courtesy and smiles, or the woman society disdains. From the child who attends the finest of schools, or the child Nobody will claim. Whether rich or poor known or unknown, the lot of mankind is to fall, when reaching the end of life's puzzling road, where one size coffin fits all.

The color of skin or place we are birthed, most often determines mans start. But behind every breast, where the soul is at rest, is the same wants and needs of a heart. Should we not lend a hand, to all of mankind, and give when need comes to call. Before reaching the end of life's puzzling road, where one size coffin fits all.

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  • 10 years ago

    by NightFlyer

    A poetic reminder of the inevitable, how we race around in life, pursuing our dreams, not knowing when our turn will be. Similar thoughts I feel when passing a graveyard, were only a stone and epitaph indicate there was once a person who had their own dreams and accomplishments. Nice write.

  • 10 years ago

    by Meena Krish

    Whether rich or poor, educated or not death does not choose who or what. Death's bed is the same for all.

    Good to see you writing once again :)

  • 10 years ago

    by Everlasting

    Interesting beat, may I ask what meter are you using?

    • 10 years ago

      by William Mae

      I really know almost nothing about the technical terms for poetry. I never considered the meter of poetry when i write it. I did look it up and if i understand it mine here would be a mixed meter, a 4/3 beat, a tetrameter followed with a trimeter. And even this may be wrong, lol, because I really dont know much about it. Thanks for reading my poem though.