POEM STARTER
Inspired by Stephanie Lacson
Mortality
Write a poem with a structured rhyme scheme, which focuses on the theme of mortality.
The Inevitable
Oh, look at me
How rich, handsome, and buff I am
Being the person everyone loves to see
Especially with my rock-hard abs, damn!
Damn, I am one fine specimen!
When I die probably not until another century
I will be honored as one of the best men
Ever! Of all time! Everyone will remember me!
Are you so sure about that?
Salutations, my name is Grim
I just came here to see you, to have a chat
Over how your thinking is rather quite dim
Oh, you’re Death!
I don’t know if I should be happy
If I get eternal rest, probably with tons of meth
Or get to be reincarnated as a sexy Latina guppy
Not too Latina, but Latina enough
Also, lady-like, but not actually like a lady
That would make me feel weird with that stuff
That, or I don’t know if I should feel negatively
If I am going to work in some office when I die
Or if I die, that’s just it
I really don’t know why
I can’t really make up my mind, not even a bit
When it comes to you
When it comes to death, really
I just tried to do what a lot would do
Be so scared, I absolutely ignore you completely
That you’re just in my head, from within
That can’t actually hurt me unless I believe in it
Like Santa Claus or Vladimir Pudin
It actually works quite a bit
Shut up about being dead!
I came here to say
To you baffling knucklehead
That you’re not special, not ever, not today
You’re not going to die another century
No one lives that long!
Regardless of their wealth, their glee
That it’s stupid to think that way, just wrong
Okay, so I won’t live THAT long
So what?
I’ll still be remembered more, you ding-dong
I’m famous, I have a nice strut
I always make an impression
Everywhere I go
I’m a big obsession
To many people, don’t you know?
Well, you’re still going to be forgotten
So who cares how many miss you
Or fake it so they could get attention
You’re going to die like those “other people,” too
You make me angry
You’re not the greatest or the best
You’re just a guy with admittedly nice abs to see
JUST LIKE THE REST!
Okay, I see
I see what you mean
The rest of the other greats like me
With my sweet abs, pretty tight and lean
It’s inevitable
Inevitable death
To everyone, everything, it’s unavoidable
Also dealing with people like you and your meth
Oh, yeah, I found this stash
In some big, golden ball
Heh, it must remind you of some ash
You know, ‘cause you’re Death and all
……….uggggggggggggghhhhhhhh……fool
How annoying you are
It’s just more cruel
Doing this to me ‘cause you think you’re a star
Also, how?
How did you become rich?
I need an answer now
‘Cause you are a real son of a bitch