If you must die
Know there was no must to it,
No must that you could see or hold
Or begin to comprehend
As having anything to do with you
Or anything you'd done, or would do.
It was an act of determined intent
To take your spark of living
And extinguish it as so many others.
But what the extinguishers did know
But couldn't embrace (although not that word
Because that gentle word is a parody
Of that extinguishment), so,
Another word, or perhaps if there isn't
That is precisely why that extinguishment
Convinces them of nothing more than
Its requirement.
And so they know, and know and know and know
And you must die.