If I Die Forever

If I die forever,
What good is my life
Why should I go on?

If I die forever,
What good is love
If cruel death wins out?

If I die forever,
What good is art
When ugliness spoils everything?

If I die forever,
Why try to survive
When a rotting corpse is my ultimate fate?

If I die forever,
Why be a good person
When the good die with the bad
And those you love die with you

Is death a community
Where all go together?
A vacation from the pain
Of this world?

Death is solitary
Alone in the dark
No more life or love
Nothing at all

If this is our fate
Why do we try?
How can you rise
From your bed in the morning
If you believe all that awaits
Is forever sleep?