Once and for all

No more worrying over right, wrong

or a decision too difficult to make

in the dichotomy of morality or sense

Days, dates, democracy, climate,

and the many tyrants unchecked

reduced to a mere joke

played upon someone else

A mute spectator you become

and so remain

without ears or eyes

to add to the opinion or voice,

which doesn't matter anyway

a sunless winter

stretched across horizons

of time and space

your last and lasting experience

the sheer finality of it,

no room for returns

or change of mind

Once you're dead

You're as dead as a dead can be dead

And go on being dead

without ever again

having to dodge or fear death

though you can't always tell

one from another

those who still draw breath

and you, so dead.