Life & Death Poem by MOHAMMAD SKATI

We are still alive
As long as we are not
In those underground and
Dark graves,
We are alive, but
We surely feel like
We are completely dead,
We are not really dead, but
We don't feel that
We are alive,
We can not compare ourselves
To those dead people
Who rest underneath
The surface of our planet,
We are physically here, but
We feel that
We are there in
Those dark graves,
Nothing attracts us
To life around us and
We are completely closer
To that scary death,
As long as everything is dead
Around us, then
We are not alive nor
We are dead, but
We are no more
Here or there,
Our whole life is wholly
Equal to death...