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The best of us die young

Why?

We are blood and body
Mind and muddled matter
That decays from the very air
Necessary like an addiction

Our eyes are skin and sinew
Senses intaking a surface
But to the machine of faults
What is there lost to us?

The best of us are of will
As what will be passed belief
The demanding of subconscious
Edicts of the soul

Then why do they die?

Why must a will be severed
When it drives our existence
All that there is
And will ever represent us?

Why do vessels feed the muscle?
Bones hold up our legs
And a head with strong neck
That its aspirations rise?

The best of us accomplish
Tasks of a higher calibre
Like a barrel of the cannon
One volley into the stars

They undertake with all motive
And lose the unwinnable condition
For through their demarcation
Revitalize our weak hearts

The best of us die young

Why?

Because they are not us
And remind us what we should be
Through the greatest league
Of history's lessons

They sacrifice their chance to live
As watcher of the now
To make a difference stand
Upon their beleaguered bones

Rivers made the body whole
Sentience to understand
The best have given these to us
Who did not ask and never shall

The best of us die young

And for that they are alive
Eternal in the ochre globes
That shape the plane we think to own
And rule without a cause for fear

In every reach as far as night
Through which the stars burn down its dark
We lose the best of us tonight
And every future one

Why?

Because the best of us die young
In the darkness of ourselves