I fear we feed on death.

The culture tries to disguise,

And escape the cold, hard fact.

Vanity numbs us to our demise.

False senses of peace refract.

I fear we feed on death.

“On death,” he says. Ha, he is no prophet!

Has he not heard of “going concern”?

Life is to capitalize! And turn a profit.

Profit on living and life; you fail to discern.

With this aptly spoken, we will now adjourn.

You fail to see, because you’ve failed to learn:

I perceive that you feed on death:

Out with the old and in with the new!

This is your scripture and in it you feed.

Upon expiration, what will become of what you accrue?

Your focus on consumption, not consumer, is a poisonous seed.

I perceive that you feed on death.

If anything, sad sage, you’ve proven our point.

We strive to meet needs and desires of life.

The world is ever changing, each new day a disjoint.

We distract from futility, and death, and strife.

Death is what we shy far from, and despise;

To do other is incredulously unwise.

You are indeed fools, muffling the people’s cries.

You see, it is undeniable you feed on death.

You market things that break down in but a few years;

This does not distract, but proves life’s brevity and end.

These cover symptoms at best; they don’t appease people’s fears.

Cover-ups, and false solutions prove nobody’s friend.

You see, it is undeniable you feed on death.

Hear examples of how you feed on death:

Plant or animal must die, for the belly to be fed;

Name me a movie, song, or story, where death has no dominion;

Petroleum is compressed death, then burned to get man ahead

Causes of war are painted as difference in opinion.

Here are a few to prove you feed on death.

You have no basis for stating such trash!

People cry out for solace from the true fact.

We, last of all, would think on a truth so brash.

No option is better, all else has no impact.

What solution could you have to the materialistic gods?

Your death is upon you too, and that relentlessly prods.

Your gods imposed on culture breed nothing but odds.

There is a solution to feeding on death.

Past status quo embraced a memento mori,

And did not conflict with your precious carpe diem.

This dichotomy between the two is the problem to the story.

A solid marriage of the two is the proper theorem.

This is the beginning to not feed on death.

You must recognize death.

It is a reminder of life’s value and beauty.

It makes one ponder what is a worthy investment.

To live life in knowledge of death is life’s sacred duty.

This is the answer, according to truth’s assessment.

You must recognize death.

It is… impossible to reconcile the two.

I cannot perceive how to live with this.

Live bold. In view of death? How can it be true?

I have not the ability; I must, sadly, dismiss.

I wish to believe such a wondrous notion,

But there is within me no such devotion.

That anything of earth could create such? That would be a costly potion!

There is something greater than death.

I said that your scriptures are based in the temporal,

There’s another Scripture, of triumph in death and life.

The hole in our hearts, and fears, though several,

Are satisfied and death plunged deep with a knife.

There is someone greater than death.

Do not feed death, retreat death!

Look deep in you, nothing you try can satisfy.

Die to the old, and be born anew, is the Gospel story;

Your former creed, but Christ-modified.

It is a life filled with hope and ending in glory.

No need to feed death, death has retreated.