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this is death

I made a video all about how I created this image: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH839ooQRDI&

Poem/image: "This is Death", self-portrait May 2020. My fascination with death is no joke. Did you know that even though I love dark things, I am the most afraid person I know? Not of things like failure or risk or money...but of absurdities, like zombies and ghosts and the dark. I won't watch a movie if it is even remotely scary. I'm still scarred by Donnie Darko. I can hardly play Clue without feeling uneasy. But I think that is where my fascination with death comes from...if I can create it, I won't be so afraid. Where do you fall? Love scary things or hate them? What are your limits?

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It isn't exactly that I am afraid of death.
In fact, I find death innately beautiful
and sacred, especially the decay.

You wouldn't believe the goosebumps
I get when I imagine bone protruding
or hair growing or blood dripping.

Death is a revelation, and decay His mistress,
waiting in the dirt to whisper melodies
long forgotten by the living.

It's not that I don't want to know what
death feels like or that I want to escape
the grand revelry of it.

It's not even that I fear the pain
or the suffering of my loved ones
in my absence - at least my last lesson
will be in
how to feel more deeply.

It's more the understanding that I fear.
That deep knowing without being able to
tell everyone: THIS, this is death.

It's the recognition that death itself
is not evil goading us to fear;
it is us, playing God, pretending.

We know that we are unknowing and that
unknowing is the unraveling that will
bring us to our knees to beg.

Death is not dumb and obtuse;
It knows we are afraid and it lets us feed on
stories of untimely, heroic, and painful ends.

It is our job to feed it our submission.

Taken on: May 14, 2020

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