Mortality

Fatal outcome looms in, on muted wings

Chaos, destruction, and doubt it brings

Just moments before, lives were whole

In arbitary shrewd, it searches its toll

No weapons protect, from deaths steely seize

No mercy approved, no respite, no ease

No surrender, no outcome, no pact to make

It engulfs all we love, for its own in take

Rocking mortalities, fragile and frail

Stealing belief, it lays waste, in its trail

Forcing, demanding, a final goodbye

With feelings, emotion realities vie

In its wake litters longing, issue, and pain

The combat to bear, endorsement in vain

A lifetime of missing, till hope filters through

Then memories abide, in the loved ones we knew

A hope for the future, respect in their name

Day-by-day settles in, until death fly's again

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