Live To Be Happy Poem by Francis Duggan

Like most people I'm one who fear death though 'tis the fear of death I do fear
And as I age the fear grows stronger as my life's journey's end I do near
A deceased one has not come back to tell us of a hereafter life after death
The last breath we draw on this Planet may well be that our final breath
Like billions I was born into religion though I've given that stuff away
But if your religion makes you a better person good on you for that I do say
Anything that makes one more caring can only be a very good thing
But I feel put off religion when warlike people the praises of God they do sing
I fear death as I do fear growing old and I am into my life's fall
But the Reaper of lives does make everyone equal so death cannot be that bad after all
In death the monarch and pauper are equal all are equal where dead people lay
And every dawn that we awake to one day nearer to our last day
One can only live to be happy and live for as long as one can
And as for me I do wish for a long life and to die as a very old man.