Death is a quick cutpurse

He comes in a message: 300 characters on the screen or in a phone call which asks you to sit down. Why should I sit down?

Death steals the memories you haven’t created yet. The ones you were looking forward to remembering. Death let’s you know you need to call a loved one, listen to their story again, get it straight.

It leaves you breathless, and panting, and standing and sitting, and the rest of your life is a little bit less now.

Death is a quick cutpurse.

Originally published at http://www.jacobsingh.name on September 22, 2013.