Brave enough to die

I don’t know,

If I’ll ever be,

Brave enough to die,

That moment between,

The wakeful watching of the world,

And it’s final gasping breaths,

Or the quiet slipping away,

Into a blacker sleep,

From which there is no return,

They call it peaceful,

But I digress,

There are those we leave behind,

Who still weep,

I don’t know,

If I will ever be,

Brave enough to die,

For faith,

For love,

For the principles,

I held fast to in life,

I wonder if,

I will ever be,

Brave enough to die,

For I have not yet lived,

Fully,

And learned the reasons,

For all my ‘why’s,

And I fear to leave behind,

The ones I loved,

And who love me,

I don’t fear death,

I fear the emptiness,

That comes after that,

And the fact,

That I will walk that road,

Alone,

I don’t think,

I will ever be,

Brave enough to die.

~Rei Shiori