Five Minutes To Live

by Robert   May 10, 2007


How would you express yourself if you had just five minutes to live,
what words of advice would you utter out or give?
Would you speak in regret, of all the bad things you caused in your life,
or would you whisper the words, that names your sweet and devoting wife?
Would you call to God, a being you think that is there,
and why should anything, or even that being, really care?
What thoughts would go through your mind, when the last breath escapes your lungs,
would it be to hold tight to the images of your past, when you were still young?
In the end, when darkness is abound and the sound of life escapes your ears,
what vision of heaven or hell, would soon appear?
Could you believe that there is another avenue for you to go,
a simple shadow of our reality, hidden from our mortal soul?
Just then your final ka, or even energy is released from the shell you were in,
a being of pure energy shuffling off his mortal skin.
Tell me, what would be your legacy to the life you were given from the start,
did you have the courage to make it a warm or cold heart?
Did you live as every day being your last day here,
and would you shun at your own image in the mirror?
Were your demons put to rest, and did you give love to another,
did you find true love in a wife or a lover?
Five minutes of life, that dozen’t seem long at all,
but look at the time you spent, seeing your life force, simply fall.
You want more time to do everything you have yet to do,
AhShhbut there is the rub, for death has come, to finally take you!

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  • 16 years ago

    by Jaymes Haze

    So, this is like the flash before your eyes just before you die and your thoughts on it?
    I think I may've missed the darker meanings within it.
    But that would be my own loss.
    Still with one reading I liked it, and hopefully with a second, I'll understand.

  • 17 years ago

    by Rocky

    That was a real interesting poem. i like the topic you chose and the questions you asked.
    very engrossing. it is almost funny how much of our lives we waste being what we dont want to be.
    excellent poem
    Love is the law.
    Love under will
    Rocky

  • 17 years ago

    by VYXSIN

    I really really love this poem, it freaken amazing!! i like this one more than the other one, yea i really really like this poem.

  • 17 years ago

    by KeyxMashingxParody

    Another 5/5 dude. You have talent! Do you rap or something, because the flow in the last poem and this one, I could put a beat to it easily. Well, just pointing that out. Very good, keep it up. :)

  • 17 years ago

    by Ashley Ann

    I am so glad to have read this poem. I would give you a 10/5 if I could.. Notice that some of your words got messed up by the computer because you added an apostrophe. This website does not like apostrophe's apparently. lol. In my opinion this poem makes you think really hard about what you would do if you were in that position. So at the end of the poem, you are left in a calm mood thinking about that. So I recommend you change the "!" to a period at the very last sentence. You have such EXCELLENT talent! (can I have some?lol) Not only am I going to give you a 5/5 but I am adding you to my favorites. I would like to read all of your poems when I get the chance. have a nice day! God bless!

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